Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 20:13:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Burton Sampley <bsampley@best.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pine dumps core under -stable Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980419201237.12012A-100000@luke.cpl.net> In-Reply-To: <199804200246.TAA03575@antipodes.cdrom.com>
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> 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
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