From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 19 21:27:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA13261 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:27:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.atipa.com (altrox.atipa.com [208.128.22.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA13219 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 04:27:29 GMT (envelope-from freebsd@atipa.com) Received: (qmail 26054 invoked by uid 1017); 20 Apr 1998 03:24:51 -0000 Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:24:51 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa To: Shawn Ramsey cc: Mike Smith , Burton Sampley , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pine dumps core under -stable In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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