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Re: crazy resource requirements for thunderbird?



On 5/19/25 21:11, Greg Troxel wrote:
I am trying to build thunderbird on NetBSD 10 amd64, pkgsrc-current, and
I have a 32GB tmpfs as /tmp.   That used to be ok, but with 138 I got a
no space on device error.

This just seems crazy; 32 GB is enormous, and firefox is fine in much
less space.

Are other people seeing this?  Is there anything to be done to have the
build use a reasonable amount of space?  (Yes, I know I could use a tmp
on real ssd for this.)

It's not just you. Thunderbird takes far more space than Firefox does, but I have yet to investigate why.

I also have this in my mk.conf, otherwise it allocates too much RAM and swaps pages out while building :(

MAKE_JOBS!=             sysctl -n hw.ncpu
# These packages consume too much memory because of either BFD ld or rustc.
MEM_CRAZY_PKGS=         # empty
MEM_CRAZY_PKGS+=        lang/clang
MEM_CRAZY_PKGS+=        lang/llvm
MEM_CRAZY_PKGS+=        lang/nodejs
MEM_CRAZY_PKGS+=        mail/thunderbird
MEM_CRAZY_PKGS+=        www/firefox
.for pkg in ${MEM_CRAZY_PKGS}
MAKE_JOBS.${pkg}=       2
.endfor



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