Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 09:52:51 -0400 From: web@3dresearch.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Out of memory during request Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.0.20070525094720.065040b0@imap.telissant.com> In-Reply-To: <46560AC3.8010909@intersonic.se> References: <LqvpJ9Dj.1180020789.2530400.janos@imap.3dresearch.com> <46560AC3.8010909@intersonic.se>
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At 05:59 PM 5/24/2007, you wrote: >Janos Dohanics wrote: >>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? >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >I forgot to say you probably need more RAM as well, at least I did. We are >running a nightly imapsync run and the problem did not go away until we >had 3GB. > >Good luck, > >Per olof Bill and Per, Thank you both. I tried ulimit -d 1000000000, but that did change the values reported by ulimit. So I did a little googling, and came across this: http://people.lemis.com/grog/diary-mar2005.html - see the March 4 entry. With this change, imapsync and 1 GB RAM could cope with the large mailbox... Janos
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