On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:46:24AM +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > Hi, > > After a few years of grumbling over Thunderbird crashing several times a day > and needing to rebuild indexes for mailboxes, I finally found a login.conf > setting that helped. With stacksize-cur=32M for staff, Thunderbird has now > not crashed for the last 2 days and I declare a win. > > Diff for the pkg README follows.
Any diff that changes the resulting package requires a revision bump. > > All the best, > Peter N. M. Hansteen > > cvs server: Diffing . > Index: README > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/ports/mail/mozilla-thunderbird/pkg/README,v > retrieving revision 1.2 > diff -u -p -u -p -r1.2 README > --- README 11 Mar 2022 19:34:42 -0000 1.2 > +++ README 18 Mar 2022 09:37:05 -0000 > @@ -34,6 +34,29 @@ package. > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/openpgp-thunderbird-howto-and-faq is > the > reference documentation for this feature. > > +Bump sizes in login.conf to avoid out of memory crashes > +======================================================= > + > +Users with large mail boxes have reported crashes with out of memory > conditions, Diff lines got wrapped. > +typically "Failed to allocate NNNNN bytes" messages. Bumping allocation > limits > +for the user class used (typically 'staff') can help avoid those problems. > + > +A typical login.conf entry would read > + > +staff:\ > + :datasize-cur=8192M:\ > + :datasize-max=infinity:\ > + :maxproc-max=512:\ > + :maxproc-cur=256:\ > + :stacksize-cur=32M:\ > + :ignorenologin:\ > + :requirehome@:\ > + :tc=default: > + > +where in particular setting stacksize-cur to a larger than default value > seems > +critical to avoid annoying out of memory crashes. > + > + > Debugging > ========= > If you encounter crashes, you might want to install the debug part of > > > -- > Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team > http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ > "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" > delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds. >
