Re: squatter exits with "fatal error: Virtual memory exhausted" on huge mailbox

2009-07-13 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
--On 13. Juli 2009 15:36:07 +0200 Gabor Gombas wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 02:09:40PM +0200, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > 4 GB limit of 32 bit binaries? Perhaps, although I haven't seen it. That's only 3GB by default, 1GB of address space is reserved for the kernel. Also, the stack, the

Re: squatter exits with "fatal error: Virtual memory exhausted" on huge mailbox

2009-07-13 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 02:09:40PM +0200, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > >4 GB limit of 32 bit binaries? > > Perhaps, although I haven't seen it. That's only 3GB by default, 1GB of address space is reserved for the kernel. Also, the stack, the executable, and all the shared libraries the executable

Re: squatter exits with "fatal error: Virtual memory exhausted" on huge mailbox

2009-07-13 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
--On 13. Juli 2009 14:53:31 +0200 Pascal Gienger wrote: Sebastian Hagedorn schrieb: fatal error: Virtual memory exhausted Of course it's possible that it then tried to allocate one huge chunk, but I can't see that. Are there better tools to monitor the memory allocation of a process? Swa

Re: squatter exits with "fatal error: Virtual memory exhausted" on huge mailbox

2009-07-13 Thread Pascal Gienger
Sebastian Hagedorn schrieb: >>> fatal error: Virtual memory exhausted > Of course it's possible that it then tried to allocate one huge chunk, > but I can't see that. Are there better tools to monitor the memory > allocation of a process? Swap file/partition full? Background: I think the messag

Re: squatter exits with "fatal error: Virtual memory exhausted" on huge mailbox

2009-07-13 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
--On 13. Juli 2009 13:20:42 +0200 Pascal Gienger wrote: Sebastian Hagedorn schrieb: Processing index character 101, 681642 total words, temp file size is 2107147 fatal error: Virtual memory exhausted 4 GB limit of 32 bit binaries? Perhaps, although I haven't seen it. How much RAM does s

Re: squatter exits with "fatal error: Virtual memory exhausted" on huge mailbox

2009-07-13 Thread Pascal Gienger
Sebastian Hagedorn schrieb: > Processing index character 101, 681642 total words, temp file size is > 2107147 > fatal error: Virtual memory exhausted 4 GB limit of 32 bit binaries? How much RAM does squatter allocate before it dies? -- Pascal Gienger University of Konstanz, IT Services Departme

squatter exits with "fatal error: Virtual memory exhausted" on huge mailbox

2009-07-13 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
Hi, we run 2.3.14 and we have one user with an enormous mailbox (not his INBOX!). It contains around 230,000 messages. We run squatter with a cronjob on all mailboxes. Recently this one mailbox has apparently become too big for squatter. When I try to squat it in verbose mode, it ends like th