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Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:54:08 -0500
From: Scott Mayo <sgmayo@mail.bloomfield.k12.mo.us>
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Subject: Re: Out of memory error
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Scott Mayo wrote:
> I am running imapsync and keep getting the error:
> 
> "Out of memory during "large" request for 67112960 bytes, total sbrk()
> is 495640576 bytes at /usr/local/bin/imapsync line 1050."
> 
> When trying to copy a mailbox that has some large attachements.
> 
> I found on the internet that I needed to set kern.maxdsiz="1024M" in my 
> /boot/loader.conf to fix this problem, but when I do that then my system 
> hangs when trying to mount the drive.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas of how to fix this memory problem?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

I guess that the KB option cannot be added to the end to specify 
Kilobytes.  I thought it could.  I put kern.maxdsiz="1000000000" and 
that took care of the problem.

Thanks.

-- 
Scott Mayo
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Bloomfield Schools


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