I do have a 12 core Ryzen CPU and 32 GBs of RAM,5 so it's not like I don't have the hardware usually. However, in this particular instance, even such mighty specs failed to cope with all of Icedove's dependencies (I believe it's webkit-gtk that fails specifically, but I'm not 100% sure), so after my PC crashed twice trying to update, I decided to try to pursue different avenues.
I'm surprised 32 GB of RAM and a recent CPU was not enough to build Icedove/Thunderbird and dependencies. Thunderbird and webkit-gtk seem to both recommend 8 GB of RAM. Maybe this was just an issue keeping the CPU cool enough to not crash?
Maybe this was just an issue keeping the CPU cool enough to not crash?
I haven't measured, so I can't tell, but I'd be surprised. I have a fairly big fan attached to my CPU and I've never really experienced heat-related issues before.
jaredkrinke | 20 hours ago
I'm surprised 32 GB of RAM and a recent CPU was not enough to build Icedove/Thunderbird and dependencies. Thunderbird and webkit-gtk seem to both recommend 8 GB of RAM. Maybe this was just an issue keeping the CPU cool enough to not crash?
nemin | 12 hours ago
I haven't measured, so I can't tell, but I'd be surprised. I have a fairly big fan attached to my CPU and I've never really experienced heat-related issues before.
fishinthecalculator | 19 hours ago
Cool series of posts and super useful feedback, thanks!
untrusem | 15 hours ago
Thanks for the post @nemin, hope to see you back into the guix world soon :D