Re: [otrs] procmail out of memory and lock files

Hi Eddie, Zitat von Eddie Urenda :

I don't know if anyone has been having problems like this, but we occassionally have procmail lockup on us with the following log messages:

Nov 4 11:58:53 xxxx procmail[5047]: Out of memory as I tried to allocate 134582620 bytes

How big is the email that was processed. Unless it was more than 134 MB, procmail is doing something strange.

Nov 4 11:58:53 xxxx sm-mta[5046]: gA4JvmiZ005045: to="|exec /usr/bin/procmail", ctladdr= (1001/100), delay=00:01:05, xdelay=00:01:0 4, mailer=prog, pri=156955, dsn=4.0.0, stat=Operating system error

I currently have no explanation of wht is causing this error, but did you check /var/log/messages? Maybe there is some more information.

From what I read in newsgroups, it seems that procmail recipes in our version of procmail no longer need lock files?? I'm not sure if this is the case or not, but the posting seemed to imply to use procmail recipes without creating a lockfile, i.e.:

I do not think that this is the problem. Have a look at the FAQ section at http://www.procmail.org, espeially here: http://www.sektorn.mooo.com/era/procmail/mini-faq.html#locking "Rule of index finger: Using an unnecessary extra lock seldom hurts. (When it does hurt, you'll notice. :^)"

-Eddie

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