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Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 11:00:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Victor M. Carranza G." <victor@mp.lex.gob.gt>
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Subject: Re: About Pine and malloc()...
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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



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