Excerpt from mindfuq(_at_)verizon(_dot_)net:
Based on Ruud's comment, my best guess at this point is that my
machine is sluggish with operating on that large of a file, and might
be causing some sort of timeout. I will probably try to break it down
further so it creates a new mythtv inbox every quarter of a year. I
might also look into whether procmail has a tunable parameter for
timing out on OS tasks.
What's interesting is that I've noticed that it's only failing half
the time, so that could indicate timing.
I don't think you said how much RAM you have. Maybe your computer with
procmail is clumsy with files on the order of 140 MB. I want to make sure
I can read the file with elvis (an enhanced open-source vi clone), and I've
never read any text file beyond the order of 6 MB. Reading through 6 MB is
smooth with elvis 2.1.4 or newer version in Linux, but navigating through a
text file beyond about 1.5 MB with the DOS port of elvis 2.1.4, running
under DR-DOS 7.03, becomes prohibitively slow and clumsy. So I assume there
is some point at which reading through a file becomes clumsy and awkward in
the Unixes and quasi-Unixes, though I think the Unixes and quasi-Unixes are
much more efficient than DOS at using large amounts of RAM. So really huge
files with procmail would make me very nervous.
Tom
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