Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 18:24:40 -0600 (CST) From: igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin) To: robert@cyrus.watson.org Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with pine Message-ID: <199802060024.SAA18879@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980205191417.313A-100000@luthien.watson.org> from "Robert Watson" at Feb 5, 98 07:16:08 pm
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> > On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Igor Roshchin wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > Sorry, if it's been discussed lately, > > but I couldn't find this. > > > > I am running 2.2.5-Release, and installed pine from the packages. > > (Computer has 64MB of RAM, and practically no processes running, > > besides sendmail, named and pop-server) > > > > When the user has a huge mailbox (~17M ;) ), pine, > > after trying to read INBOX, gives up with: > > > > Problem detected: "Can't resize free storage". > > Pine Exiting. > > Abort (core dumped) > > > > > > Any idea what it can be ? > > You may be running into process limits -- Pine mmaps the entire mailbox > into memory when not using Imap (plug for the CMU Cyrus Server here) -- > try doing an unlimit first (if using csh/etc; otherwise man limits). > Also, some versions of Pine (in my experience) have problems with large > mailboxes. You will want to check that you are using at least 3.95 -- > preferably 3.96. Given Pine's nasty mmap behavior, Imap is really far > preferable. > THis seems to be helpful... "unlimit" did it work... (version of pine is 3.96) I didn't quite understand what role the Imap would play. (are we talking about the same imap here ? /usr/ports/mail/imap does not seem to be anywhat relevant to the question..) Would please give any references as for - where I can look that up ? Thanks! IgoR
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