Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 08:27:10 -0700 From: Jerry Preeper <preeper@cts.com> To: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap_pager: out of swap space (-->crash) - procmail is problem Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990601082710.0417c370@crash.cts.com> In-Reply-To: <19990601162650.A12414@internal> References: <3.0.5.32.19990601064127.04344590@crash.cts.com> <3.0.5.32.19990528201253.041a8a20@crash.cts.com> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905312151580.4498-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu > <3.0.5.32.19990601064127.04344590@crash.cts.com>
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Is the procmail patch for 3.11.pre7 or for 3.13.1? And just out of curiosity, how much RAM and swap on the machine you used to send the 100MB emails? Jerry At 04:26 PM 6/1/99 +0200, Andre Albsmeier wrote: >On Tue, 01-Jun-1999 at 06:41:27 -0700, Jerry Preeper wrote: >> It appears that procmail 3.11.pre7 has a known problem with BSD systems and >> memory allocation, which has supposedly been fixed up somewhat in the > >At least it had a problem with FreeBSD. It was due to the silly way how >it (re)alloc'ed memory. I made a patch for it which you can still find at: > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/mail/procmail/patches/Attic/pat ch-ae?rev=1.1 > >> latest release - 3.13.1 to use an alternative method I upgraded >> yesterday and haven't seen a problem yet, but then again, I haven't sent it >> a huge email -- yet. > >I sent already 100MB mails over 3.13.1 without any problem. > > >> >> My 550 code should have been a 554, but I have already removed that from >> the /etc/mail/access file. I have also set MaxMessageSize in sendmail to >> 15000000 which should probably handle a 10MB encoded email +/- I'm guessing. >> >> Jerry >> > > -Andre > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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