Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 11:00:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Victor M. Carranza G." <victor@mp.lex.gob.gt> Cc: FreeBSD Questions mailing list <questions@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: About Pine and malloc()... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980506105948.10587I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980506110332.8569A-100000@mp-dbs.mp.intralex>
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On Wed, 6 May 1998, Victor M. Carranza G. wrote: > I used to have my e-mail account on a DEC Alpha box, with OSF/1 and 128MB > of RAM. Now, I have moved to a FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP (971006) box, with 256MB > RAM. I use here the same version of Pine i had in the Alpha box: 3.96. > Now, I cannot open some relatively big folders (above 5MB), 'cause Pine > exits on signal 6, complaining with a "out of free storage" error. I found > some info about that message, stating that it was due to malloc() not > being able to allocate enough memory... so, I did: > > ln -s 'A>' /etc/malloc.conf > > to double the cache size, and now, pine simply keeps trying forever to > open the big folders. > > What can I try to do, to fix this? Try running `unlimit' before running pine and bumping up the limits in /etc/login.conf. And reduce the size of your folders :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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