Re: out of memory on read

[Morgan Fletcher <morgan@hahaha.org>]

Earl Hood <ehood@hydra.acs.uci.edu> writes:
> > The command line I'm using is:
> > 
> >   /usr/pkg/bin/mhonarc -add -savemem -rcfile \
> >   /usr/pkg/libexec/cgi-bin/.wilma/landcruisers.rc -outdir 200106 \
> >   landcruisers.200106
> > 
> > This is the output I get:
> > 
> >   Reading resource file: \
> >   /usr/pkg/libexec/cgi-bin/.wilma/landcruisers.rc ...
> >   Adding messages to 200106
> >   Reading landcruisers.200106 .Out of memory!
> 
> Check your resource file, "landcruisers.rc", to see if you have
> nay unclosed resources.  I.e.  Resource that do not have the proper
> close tag.   Also, if it is an HTML message, you may be interested in
> the work-around introduced in v2.4.8 to a regex engine bug in perl.
> 
> If you can provide pointers to your resource file and the message
> causing the problem, I can examine them to see where the problem may be.

OK, I think I've found the problem.

Midway through April, the machine serving out list transitioned from
sendmail 8.8.7 to 8.11.0. It is at that boundary that things go
awry. Before that transition, mhonarc 2.4.7 handles messages properly,
after that transition, mhonarc wads all messages into a monolithic
msg00000.html and runs out of memory. I talked about it with a
friend. Looking at the headers, he pointed out that the only thing that
seems odd is that the Message ID goes from 8 characters to 12:

Before:

  From owner-landcruisers@moab.off-road.com  Wed Apr  4 11:09:25 2001
  Received: (from majordom@localhost)
->        by moab.off-road.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA15036
          for landcruisers-goingout; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 11:09:25 -0700

After:  

  From owner-landcruisers@moab.off-road.com Wed Apr  4 22:14:45 2001
  Received: (from majordom@localhost)
->        by moab.off-road.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f355Ejs05446
          for landcruisers-goingout; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 22:14:45 -0700
  
I couldn't find anything in the archives or the docs about it. Can you
offer me advice? Problem exists with 2.4.7 and 2.4.8.

morgan