[approved] Re: How many messages can be in a mailbox file?

[mhoarc@midway.ch]

Gary,

Try setting your "System Properties"/ "Advanced" / "Performance Options" to "Background Services"

keep the task manager open during mhonarc's run and see how the memory usage develops.

As Perl will only use one thread and all the memory it can get on Win32 you may be lacking memory and it will page its life out. I've let a box just "hang" for 4 hours and suddenly perl went on.

Not a very scientific approach but it did the job.

Alex


At 21:20 30.06.2003 Gary Frederick  wrote:
>I am building a new archive. I just installed MHonArc 2.6.4 and am on 
>Windows XP, 512Mb Memory, 20Gb free memory.
>
>I am trying to read an archive that has around 60,000 messages in it. I 
>got the mail file by taking several smaller mail files and using formail 
>to get them all into one email file. I have built an archive with the 
>smaller files.
>
>MHonArc runs and runs and runs and then when it is probably done reading 
>messages, hangs.
>
>Have others created new archives with 60,000 messages?
>
>Is there anything I can do?
>
>-----
>I'll go back to the smaller files if I can not get past this.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Gary
>
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