<p>64-bit platform I assume, check your limits (ulimit) wherever they exist for your OS and distro. That'd be my guess as to what you ran afoul of, that said, I haven't ever indexed a single folder that large.</p>
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<p>Sent from my Motorola Xoom</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 22, 2013 12:36 AM, "mailing lists" <<a href="mailto:mailinglists35@gmail.com">mailinglists35@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<br>
Posted this to info-cyrus but got no replies. Trying my luck on this<br>
list. Thanks in advance.<br>
<br>
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From: mailing lists <<a href="mailto:mailinglists35@gmail.com">mailinglists35@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:29 AM<br>
Subject: squatter error "Closing index: Cannot allocate memory"<br>
To: <a href="mailto:info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu">info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a><br>
<br>
<br>
root@imap:~# su - cyrus -c '/usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/ionice -c 3<br>
/usr/sbin/squatter -vis user/archive'<br>
Indexing mailbox user/archive... Closing index: Cannot allocate memory<br>
<br>
The mailbox has ~1,3 million emails with a total size of ~124Gb<br>
<br>
The 2.6.32-5-686 Debian squeeze kernel has<br>
total used free shared buffers cached<br>
Mem: 2066308 1639956 426352 0 52 875672<br>
-/+ buffers/cache: 764232 1302076<br>
Swap: 979832 118400 861432<br>
<br>
Using cyrus-imapd-2.3 2.3.16-1<br>
<br>
cyrus dot something files have the following sizes:<br>
-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 58M Jun 20 09:28 cyrus.index<br>
-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 1.3G Jun 20 09:28 cyrus.cache<br>
-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 1.1G Jun 19 23:48 cyrus.squat.NEW<br>
-rw------- 1 cyrus mail 197 Jan 13 2011 cyrus.header<br>
<br>
Could this be a bug or should I make more memory room available for<br>
squatter to do it's job?<br>
Thanks.<br>
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