Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 19:16:08 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: Igor Roshchin <igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with pine Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980205191417.313A-100000@luthien.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <199802052348.RAA17824@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu>
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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/
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