Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:24:51 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Burton Sampley <bsampley@best.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pine dumps core under -stable Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980419212349.26048A-100000@altrox.atipa.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980419201237.12012A-100000@luke.cpl.net>
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try procmail. It hits you harder or disk IO, but is MUCH nicer on RAM and CPU. You can sort really well with it. Kevin On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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