From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 20 10:28:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17737 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 10:28:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.111.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA17685 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 17:28:42 GMT (envelope-from pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at) Received: from alcyone (alcyone.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.111.54]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA04976 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 19:28:31 +0200 (MET-DST) Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 19:28:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gerald Pfeifer X-Sender: pfeifer@alcyone.dbai.tuwien.ac.at Reply-To: Gerald Pfeifer To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pine dumps core under -stable In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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