Subject: Re: Out of free storage

From: Richard Gering <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 08:55:48 +0100 (WET)

On Wed, 1 Nov 1995, John Treloar wrote:

> I am running pine 3.91 on a linux server. I have recieved some mail with a 
> large binary MIME attachment (5MB). When I try to read it (to see the text 
> part and save the attachment) I get an 'Out of free storage' message. 
> 
> Is there a way of increasing the storage space or is this just too big to
> be practical? I couldn't see any options in the setup configuration.
> 
> Thanks in anticipation.  :-)

Hi John,

Are you sure that you've not truly run out of memory? (RAM + swap space).
Pine will report the "Out of free storage" message only if it fails to 
obtain free memory (using malloc()). 

Just run "free" on another terminal at about the time Pine is to display 
the message "Out of free storage" and check the amount of free memory left.
If you're running short on memory you can (temporary) obtain additional swap 
space by letting Linux swap into a regular file. Checkout the command "swapon"
for more info.

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Best regards,

- Richard Gering.

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From: "Mark A. Wille" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 15:06:43 -0600

I don't know if this is going to be right, or if it is even going to help 
you, but do you know what your disk space quota on your server is? I know 
mine is only 10MB and that fills up fast. Try checking to see if you have 
surpassed your quota.

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