From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 5 16:43:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA10220 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 16:43:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fledge.watson.org (root@FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.91.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA10006 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 16:41:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from luthien.watson.org (luthien.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.42]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.6.10) with SMTP id TAA17988; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 19:16:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 19:16:08 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@luthien.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: Igor Roshchin cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with pine In-Reply-To: <199802052348.RAA17824@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe stable" On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Igor Roshchin wrote: > Hello! > > Sorry, if it's been discussed lately, > but I couldn't find this. > > I am running 2.2.5-Release, and installed pine from the packages. > (Computer has 64MB of RAM, and practically no processes running, > besides sendmail, named and pop-server) > > When the user has a huge mailbox (~17M ;) ), pine, > after trying to read INBOX, gives up with: > > Problem detected: "Can't resize free storage". > Pine Exiting. > Abort (core dumped) > > > Any idea what it can be ? You may be running into process limits -- Pine mmaps the entire mailbox into memory when not using Imap (plug for the CMU Cyrus Server here) -- try doing an unlimit first (if using csh/etc; otherwise man limits). Also, some versions of Pine (in my experience) have problems with large mailboxes. You will want to check that you are using at least 3.95 -- preferably 3.96. Given Pine's nasty mmap behavior, Imap is really far preferable. Does anyone know if pine Kerberos patches are available that work against the FreeBSD port? Robert N Watson Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/