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From: brent@vivid.net (Brent "Weasel" Wiese)
Subject: Cant resize free storage...
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 20:33:30 GMT
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Greetings

I periodically get this message:
Cant resize free storage
mostly from IPOP3D... I've been told that it has to do with the
"memory per process" being set to 10 meg on bsdi 2.0...

Anyone know where to change this? I looked at the kernal config, but I
only have the binaries, not the source. I'd like to be able to bump
this up a bit so users can get large attachments...

Which brings me to the second question, if I quota users at 5mb, it
seems that they can't get an attachment over 2 meg. At first I thought
it was the disk quota (couldn't write temp files), but it looks like
its the memory problem above. Whats a good number to set the "per
process" to if I want a user to be able to get a 4-5 meg attachment?

The box has 128 meg of RAM and I don't usually see more than 15-20
people getting mail simultaneously. Also, I doubt that all users are
getting large attachments...

Please email me with suggestions too: brent@vivid.net

Thanks,
Brent