From f51d988642c3913bf9acc042018238132b6bb232 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tomas Rivera <tomas.riveral@icloud.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:17:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added settings. Nixpkgs-review shouldn't make my pc crash now

---
 hosts/laptop/configuration.nix | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/hosts/laptop/configuration.nix b/hosts/laptop/configuration.nix
index 3ffad90..216b428 100755
--- a/hosts/laptop/configuration.nix
+++ b/hosts/laptop/configuration.nix
@@ -20,6 +20,16 @@
     ../../modules/nixos/udevsimple.nix
   ];
 
+  # this 4 settings should make nixpkgs-review not crash my laptop
+  swapDevices = [{
+      device = "/swapfile";
+      size = 16384; # 16 GB
+    }
+  ];
+  nix.settings.max-jobs = 2;
+  nix.settings.cores = 2;
+  boot.kernel.sysctl."vm.swappiness" = 10;
+
   programs.nix-ld.enable = true; #Run unpatched dynamic binaries on NixOS. For example lets run ./a.out from gcc
 
   documentation.man.generateCaches = true; # used for the man script