Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 22:02:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Andre Albsmeier <Andre.Albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: procmail dies, why? Message-ID: <199704132002.WAA12983@curry.mchp.siemens.de>
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Hi, I am running procmail on a FreeBSD-2.2.1 system with 32MB RAM and 150MB swap to deliver mail locally. A few days ago, a user received a mail with a size of 8 MB. I only became aware of the problem due to a "mailer local died with signal 11" in the syslog. I tried to track the problem by running sendmail -q. I saw procmails memory gowing up to 15MB and than the system began to swap. Shortly later I got the above syslog message and the mail delivery was aborted. Trying the same on a 2.2.1 machine with 64MB RAM worked properly. Even a 2.1.7 machine with 16MB worked OK. Is this a procmail failure, a kernel error or something different? What can I do to find the reason for this behavior? -Andre
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