Fwd: squatter error "Closing index: Cannot allocate memory"

[Michael Loftis]

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.

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On Jun 22, 2013 12:36 AM, "mailing lists" <mailinglists35 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Posted this to info-cyrus but got no replies. Trying my luck on this
> list. Thanks in advance.
>
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> root at imap:~# su - cyrus -c '/usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/ionice -c 3
> /usr/sbin/squatter -vis user/archive'
> Indexing mailbox user/archive... Closing index: Cannot allocate memory
>
> The mailbox has ~1,3 million emails with a total size of ~124Gb
>
> The 2.6.32-5-686 Debian squeeze kernel has
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       2066308    1639956     426352          0         52     875672
> -/+ buffers/cache:     764232    1302076
> Swap:       979832     118400     861432
>
> Using cyrus-imapd-2.3                    2.3.16-1
>
> cyrus dot something files have the following sizes:
> -rw------- 1 cyrus mail  58M Jun 20 09:28 cyrus.index
> -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 1.3G Jun 20 09:28 cyrus.cache
> -rw------- 1 cyrus mail 1.1G Jun 19 23:48 cyrus.squat.NEW
> -rw------- 1 cyrus mail  197 Jan 13  2011 cyrus.header
>
> Could this be a bug or should I make more memory room available for
> squatter to do it's job?
> Thanks.
>
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