From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 19 20:15:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA25049 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 20:15:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [209.150.92.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA24990 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 03:15:40 GMT (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: from localhost (shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA13447; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 20:13:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 20:13:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Shawn Ramsey To: Mike Smith cc: Burton Sampley , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pine dumps core under -stable In-Reply-To: <199804200246.TAA03575@antipodes.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Your naivete is touching. Let me upset you by observing that Pine is > not a text editor, and does not treat files in the same fashion as such > a device does. > > Pine is known to interact extremely poorly with the FreeBSD malloc() (a > fault in pine), and this manifests as excessive memory consumption when > it comes to reading large mailboxes. > > Increasing the soft limits in login.conf won't increase the hard > limits, which is what pine is running into. > > To put it simply - if you want to work with large mailboxes, use a > better mailreader. Have any suggestions? Pine begins to bog really bad on this machine at about 2000-3000 messages.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message