From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 8 22:54:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA28103 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 22:54:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA28096 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 22:54:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA03337; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 22:54:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 22:54:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Cliff Addy cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ipop3d, pine, and large mail files In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Cliff Addy wrote: > I'm having a problem with ipop3d and pine dealing with large mail files. > For example, I had a user named em111 and the /var/mail/em111 file was > around 15 megs. Both ipop3d and pine blew up for this user after chewing > up 200 megs of virtual memory. It really surprised me that ipop3d would > even be *trying* to read the entire file into RAM. This should be taken up with the UWash (or whomever) people, since it's in their software. (I know it sounds like "blame them!"...) I can corroborate this sort of problem to SunOS systems -- our Sun SPARCenter 1000 mailserver will choke pretty badly if the mailspool > 2mb or so. Thus, we have 1mb quotas on the /var/mail filesystem to prevent such abuses of the mail system. > Regardless, it seems on a system with 30 megs free RAM and 200 megs of > virtual that pine or pop3d should not need more memory than that. Is > there a misconfiguration here? I'm guessing it gets stuck in an endless loop. Generally, pop will copy messages from the mailspool to a temp file as they are sent. It may be overflowing that copy. You should mention this to UWash or whomever provided you with ipop3d. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major