On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 10:37:22AM +0100, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > Are those oom problems related to hardware, kernel or userland > software?
userland software eating all the virtual memory > The system is mainly used as a dropbox for a huge amount of mail. > Mutt is opening and working on a 1.5 GB mbox. Considering this > usage, should we apply special configuration or should a 'vanilla > system' be able to cope with this? wow! that's a lot of mail I don't think mutt actually loads the entire mailbox into memory at any stage, though, so this shouldn't kill your computer. I suggest you run "top" and watch it while you work for a while to find out what is going wrong. You can always try throwing more swap space at it, e.g. for another gigabyte of swap (as root): dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1024 count=$[1024 * 1024] mkswap /swap swapon /swap (and put a new line in /etc/fstab) If this helps, you can use parted or whatever to resize your partitions and increase your swap partition, a swap partition is a bit more efficient than a swap file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
