On January 5, 1999 at 17:19, James M Galvin wrote:
> The machine on which this occurs has 64 Meg of real memory and the swap
> space is 512 Meg so no, the swap space is not as big as the message. I
> have always wondered if that was the real issue but never dug real deep
> to confirm it. It always appeared that mhonarc worked with files itself
> so it didn't need that much memory. If you tell me you really think
> that's it I'll have to test that theory.
Not enough memory. MHonArc reads the entire message into memory
to process. It allows for faster performance, but hurts when
having to process large messages.
A redesign is reqired to support a temp file model. Also, it
may be really slow due the nature of Perl. I.e. A temp file model
may require underlying C implementation to get acceptable performance.
--ewh
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