Re: firefox-158.0 build failure NetBSD 11.0-STABLE

[Mike Pumford <mpumford%mudcovered.org.uk@localhost>]

On 27/10/2026 19:21, Mike Pumford wrote:

> I set the environment variable
> NODE_OPTIONS to '--max-old-space-size=8192' globally before starting the 
> script which builds my packages.
> In modern node system that is 8GB of old GC objects. Modern node sizes 
> this on pointer size and reported system memory size so for very large 
> systems it might work without it.
Ran into a similar issue with one of my own nodejs projects and it looks 
like the real underlying issue here is the max data segment size that I 
have in login.conf.

nodejs sizes the heap based on the max data segment size set by ulimit. 
Which I had set to a tiny 512MB meaning nodejs ended up with a 256MB 
heap. Not unreasonable given the ulimit in play so I guess the ultimate 
fix is a ulimit -d wrapped around my build script.

Mike