From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 7 13:21:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA08553 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 13:21:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA08548 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 13:21:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (fbsdlist@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA13605 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 16:20:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 16:20:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Cliff Addy To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ipop3d, pine, and large mail files Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm having a problem with ipop3d and pine dealing with large mail files. For example, I had a user named em111 and the /var/mail/em111 file was around 15 megs. Both ipop3d and pine blew up for this user after chewing up 200 megs of virtual memory. It really surprised me that ipop3d would even be *trying* to read the entire file into RAM. Regardless, it seems on a system with 30 megs free RAM and 200 megs of virtual that pine or pop3d should not need more memory than that. Is there a misconfiguration here?