Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 12:05:11 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Janos Dohanics" <web@3dresearch.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Out of memory during request Message-ID: <20070524120511.b41c16c2.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <LqvpJ9Dj.1180020789.2530400.janos@imap.3dresearch.com> References: <LqvpJ9Dj.1180020789.2530400.janos@imap.3dresearch.com>
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In response to "Janos Dohanics" <web@3dresearch.com>: > > I'm using imapsync to transfer maildirs to a new server. One of the > mailboxes is about 4.7 GB. While into the syncing to about 3 GB, > imapsync quits with this message: > > <END> > while processing LITERAL > Read: * 5330 FETCH (UID 5337 BODY[] ) > 12835 OK Fetch completed. > > Out of memory during request for 80 bytes, total sbrk() is 536813568 > bytes! > > I'm running imapsync on the target system, which is FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE > with 1 GB RAM. > > I'm wondering if I could adjust some resource settings to let the > imapsync job finish? Check the output from ulimit -a: ... data seg size (kbytes, -d) 524288 ... I'm pretty sure that limits the maximum amount of RAM a single process can allocate, and it seems to match up with your error. (That's the default value) ulimit -d 1000000000 should fix it. Odd program that allocates all that memory ... -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com
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