[Cscmail-devel] cscmail 1.6.1 is a runaway failure;-((

[John S. <su...@os...>]

I tried to import this file:
-rw-rw-r--    1 listread listread  3135949 Apr 30 06:35 INBOX

cscmail ran for some hours and gave the system a thorough thrashing. It finally 
ended thus:
nfs: server dugite OK
Out of Memory: Killed process 1139 (java).
Out of Memory: Killed process 1160 (java).
Out of Memory: Killed process 1161 (java).
Out of Memory: Killed process 1162 (java).
Out of Memory: Killed process 1163 (java).
Out of Memory: Killed process 1164 (java).
Out of Memory: Killed process 1165 (java).
Out of Memory: Killed process 1166 (java).
Out of Memory: Killed process 1168 (java).
Out of Memory: Killed process 892 (java).
Out of Memory: Killed process 5876 (cscmail).
Out of Memory: Killed process 5876 (cscmail).
[summer@possum summer]$ lrdr                                                         


The system is a Pentium II 233, 192 Mb RAM and 128 Mb swap. Some time before it came 
to this poor pass, the ps command reported it was using 66% of my memory.


Needless to say, its performance impresses me. Adversely.

Now, before you get excited, I do like the look of it, and it has many features that 
I like. Being written in Perl is one of them. I also like the CSV storage

I do know enough Perl to understand that this performance problem is not due to the 
use of Perl per se.

The mail file I was importing was create by the VM mailer in xemacs. It's fairly 
clear that cscmail doesn't have a good understanding of the format of the file.


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