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

[Count Z. <cou...@cy...>]

Yeah, 1.6.1's mbox import is broken.. Please download the newest 1.7.x
version (from sourceforge) ... It fixes many problems with mbox import and
export.

Also, be aware that CSV format is inherantly slow.  once you get more than a
few hundred messages in a folder, you most likely will wish you had a "real"
database behind your mail.

-Count Zero

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Summerfield" <su...@os...>
To: <csc...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 11:07 PM
Subject: [Cscmail-devel] cscmail 1.6.1 is a runaway failure;-((


>
> 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.
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> John Summerfield
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