Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 19:28:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pine dumps core under -stable Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980420191943.29565I-100000@alcyone.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980420095520.20478A-100000@shell.uniserve.com>
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On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Tom wrote: > On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Mike Smith wrote: >> To put it simply - if you want to work with large mailboxes, use a >> better mailreader. > Or read mail via imap. Memory usage remains fixed for any size of > mailbox. ...which is, btw, also what the developers of Pine have been recommending over and over again for years and years. (This and ``Never mount mail over NFS!'') > Pine's memory allocation isn't that bad. Because it uses the c-client > libs, when accessing bezerk mailboxes, it loads the entire thing into > memory. Using other mailbox types (which you may want to because bezerk > is terrible anyhow) will help a lot too. On a related note, Pine 4.0 will use a new version of c-client, which won't read entire mail files into main memory, but operate from disk (like Mutt, for example) Again Tom is right here, though: If you have lots of mail or large folders, go for a different format! Gerald -- Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry) Vienna University of Technology pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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