Subject: Re: procmail[12317]: Out of memory as I tried to allocate 16781357 bytes
To: Neil J. McRae <neil@easynet.net>
From: Curt Sampson <curt@portal.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 10/18/1996 11:31:56
On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Neil J. McRae wrote:

> Has anyone else had procmail give these errors on NetBSD? Its
> majorly annoying... Anyone got a fix, procmail is called as the local
> delivery agent from sendmail. I don't get this on StunOS.

Why is it trying to allocate 16 MB of VM? If it's just large messages,
have it ulimit() dsize up a bit when it starts up.

Did you get flock() locking to work? I never could under 1.0 or
1.1, and so I'm a bit scared to use procmail. (flock() is the only
locking scheme that mail.local uses.)

cjs

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