From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 13 13:02:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA21372 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 13:02:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [139.23.36.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA21355 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 13:02:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from salomon.mchp.siemens.de (salomon.siemens.de [139.23.33.13]) by david.siemens.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA16202 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 21:57:36 +0200 (MDT) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (1@curry.mchp.siemens.de [146.180.31.23]) by salomon.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA18117 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 22:02:26 +0200 (MDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA06606 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 22:02:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andre Albsmeier Message-Id: <199704132002.WAA12983@curry.mchp.siemens.de> Subject: procmail dies, why? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 22:02:15 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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