Out of memory during request

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At 05:59 PM 5/24/2007, you wrote:
>Janos Dohanics wrote:
>>I'm using imapsync to transfer maildirs to a new server. One of the
>>mailboxes is about 4.7 GB. While into the syncing to about 3 GB,
>>imapsync quits with this message:
>><END>
>>while processing LITERAL
>>Read: * 5330 FETCH (UID 5337 BODY[] )
>>12835 OK Fetch completed.
>>Out of memory during request for 80 bytes, total sbrk() is 536813568
>>bytes!
>>I'm running imapsync on the target system, which is FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE
>>with 1 GB RAM.
>>I'm wondering if I could adjust some resource settings to let the
>>imapsync job finish?
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>
>I forgot to say you probably need more RAM as well, at least I did. We are 
>running a nightly imapsync run and the problem did not go away until we 
>had 3GB.
>
>Good luck,
>
>Per olof

Bill and Per,

Thank you both. I tried ulimit -d 1000000000, but that did change the 
values reported by ulimit.

So I did a little googling, and came across this:

http://people.lemis.com/grog/diary-mar2005.html - see the March 4 entry.

With this change, imapsync and 1 GB RAM could cope with the large mailbox...

Janos