Package: chewmail Version: 1.2-1 Severity: normal Hello,
again, thanks for chewmail. While archiving a very large mail folder, chewmail has managed to eat up all the memory and swap, until oom-killer killed it: [...] WARNING: Illegal character in field name =D0=C9=D3=D8=CD=CF =F7=C1=D3 =CE=C1=D0=D2=C1=D3=CE=CF=20 WARNING: Different messages with id [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin/daily_mail_archive: line 73: 6121 Killed chewmail --days=14 --output-box=$OUTDIR/$i".archived-%Y%m" ~/Maildir/.$i/ And in dmesg: oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0 [...] Out of memory: Killed process 6121 (chewmail). I managed to finally archive that folder, by creating a temporary swap file. chewmail used something like 900Mb of ram. I assume that it is processing the entire folder in ram, which of course can have explosive results. At the end of the processing, chewmail archived the folder in two files, 39'338'996 and 8'942'802 bytes, and left a 52Mb mail folder. It looks like it used 900Mb of memory to process about 100Mb of mail. The figures are scary, I hope I'm getting something wrong. Cheers, Enrico -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-amd64 Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages chewmail depends on: ii libmail-box-perl 2.068-1 Manage a message-folder ii perl 5.8.8-7etch3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction chewmail recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
