Michael Hall <mhall(_at_)riverside(_dot_)org> writes:
The system is BSDI 3.1 with sendmail 8.9.3 and procmail-3.11pre7 setup
as the local mailer. We're using the hashed spool (2 levels/tiers) and
everything seemed to work fine in our initial limited testing before
bringing it on line. Once online everything works fine except for a
problem with some mail/attachments. Using 'mailq' we see things like this:
...
MAA04686 9933545 Mon Mar 8 12:17 <dreamscape(_at_)rockisland(_dot_)com>
...
Mar 9 14:00:32 cronus procmail[1741]: Out of memory as I tried to allocate 41
98448 bytes
BSD based system + big message problems ==> upgrade to procmail version 3.12
(realloc() under BSD systems is a inefficient operation. 3.12 detects
this during configuration and tweaks its allocation routine to use a
exponential growth.)
Philip Guenther