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Re: OUT OF MEMORY

2002-07-04 19:35:25
At 21:58 2002-07-04 -0400, Homer Wilson Smith did say:
  Could some kind soul tell me what this indicates beyond its
obvious meaning.

I believe this was discussed at length back in December and again in March, and those messages will be found in the list archive, which is linked right from the procmail homepage.

This is probably relevant (follow the thread links for more):

<http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/2002-03/msg00155.html>

  Runing sendmail 8.8.8, procmail 3.21.

And OS ?  with Kernel version ?

  Anyway to know WHO the mail is from or who it is for if it is mail that
is causing the problem.

That information should have been logged by your MTA, as well as the actual transmission size of the message. Please refer to your logs, and/or change your logging config to ensure that your MTA is logging.

20020614.mail:Jun 13 14:26:45 mx procmail[12430]: Out of memory as I tried to allocate 134578048 bytes
20020614.mail:Jun 13 14:26:45 mx procmail[12440]: Out of memory as I tried to
[big a** snip - bunches and bunches of the same error - we get the picture]

Oh, you're getting 43 of these, not just 36 of 'em, well, that's altogether different...

If it weren't for the 3+ week old date, I'd have suspected your memory was seeking independance...

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