Memory Error using Mailman on FreeBSD. How to debug?
Dan Busarow
dan at dpcsys.com
Tue Feb 5 15:35:15 UTC 2008
On Feb 5, 2008, at 4:17 AM, Lachlan Michael wrote:
> I have a question about debugging a memory error on FreeBSD.
>
> When a user sends an e-mail with an attachment above about 500kB to
> a very
> small mailing list (4 members), Mailman on my server aborts processing
> with the error
> MemoryError : out of memory
[snip]
>
> # limits
> Resource limits (current):
> cputime infinity secs
> filesize infinity kB
> datasize 524288 kB
> stacksize 65536 kB
> coredumpsize infinity kB
> memoryuse infinity kB
> memorylocked infinity kB
> maxprocesses 5547
> openfiles 11095
> sbsize infinity bytes
> vmemoryuse infinity kB
>
Try running limits as the mailman user, not root. All the mailman
programs run as your mailman user.
Dan
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