On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:53:30PM -0500, Tim Hunter wrote:
> Works for me.
Are you using the same OS? The same /etc/login.conf (Drew is on some
version of FreeBSD)? Are the limits that are inherited by qmail-pop3d
the same in both cases?
Regards.
> This particular machine is a p75 with 32megs of ram, and 128swap.
> I use vpopmail for authentication looks like the only difference.
>
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to 127.0.0.1.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> user broke
> +OK
> pass broke
> +OK
> stat
> +OK 2002 755
> quit
> +OK
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 4:27 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Out of Memory???
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> > I have recently installed qmail-1.03 using ./Maildir/ and pop. I
> > am using qmail-pop3d and checkpasswords. The problem I am
> > having is that when a user gets large amounts of mail ie. 2000+ it
> > will not scan their maildir. This is the message I am getting:
> >
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > Connected to localhost
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > user excesstest
> > +OK
> > pass xxxxxx
> > -ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir
> > Connection closed by foreign host.
> >
> > It works fine for all other aspects just when a user gets excessive
> > amounts of mail it stops scanning their maildir. Everyone elses still
> > works though.
> >
> > I found a post on the mailing list that made me think I had worked it out
> > but the amount of memory was not the case.
> >
> > I am using a Pentium Celeron 400mhz with 384MB of RAM running
> > FreeBSD 4.1.
> >
> > Another post told me I might need to change the limits could the
> > number of openfiles have anything to do with it.
> > Here are my resource limits:
> > Resource limits (current):
> > cputime infinity secs
> > filesize infinity kb
> > datasize 524288 kb
> > stacksize 65536 kb
> > coredumpsize infinity kb
> > memoryuse infinity kb
> > memorylocked infinity kb
> > maxprocesses 531
> > openfiles 1064
> > sbsize infinity bytes
> >
> > I did a ktrace on the pop3 process and the results tended to
> > indicate a memory
> > problem as it displayed the following line:
> > 17129 qmail-pop3d RET break -1 errno 12 Cannot allocate memory
> >
> > If anyone has any insights could they please help me it would be
> > much appreciated.
> >
> > Drew
> >
