[Dovecot] Panic: Trying to allocate 2147483648 bytes

[David Halik]

On 3/20/2009 6:26 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>
> Maybe you could try copying the libraries and using LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or
> whatever it is in Solaris) to force using those libraries instead of the
> default ones?
>    
I could try that as a last resort, but I don't think it will help. We 
build our own packages here which you can find at rpm.rutgers.edu, so I 
checked the version and its the same libiconv package on both machines. 
I even reverted to an earlier libiconv 1.11, but the problem still 
persisted.
> You could also try what it logs with this patch when crashing:
>
>    

Here's the logs it generated before dying:

Mar 21 18:42:37 er0.rutgers.edu IMAP(dhalik): : [ID 183078 mail.warning] 
Growing pool 'Cache fields' with: 2048
Mar 21 18:42:50 er0.rutgers.edu IMAP(dhalik): : [ID 512293 mail.warning] 
charset grows: used=8130, add=63
Mar 21 18:42:50 er0.rutgers.edu IMAP(dhalik): : [ID 512293 mail.warning] 
charset grows: used=8157, add=8228
Mar 21 18:42:50 er0.rutgers.edu IMAP(dhalik): : [ID 512293 mail.warning] 
charset grows: used=8161, add=24608
Mar 21 18:42:50 er0.rutgers.edu IMAP(dhalik): : [ID 512293 mail.warning] 
charset grows: used=8141, add=57396
Mar 21 18:42:50 er0.rutgers.edu IMAP(dhalik): : [ID 512293 mail.warning] 
charset grows: used=8152, add=122921
Mar 21 18:42:54 er0.rutgers.edu IMAP(dhalik): : [ID 512293 mail.warning] 
charset grows: used=8131, add=254014
Mar 21 18:42:54 er0.rutgers.edu IMAP(dhalik): : [ID 512293 mail.warning] 
charset grows: used=8158, add=516131
Mar 21 18:42:54 er0.rutgers.edu IMAP(dhalik): : [ID 512293 mail.warning] 
charset grows: used=8159, add=1040418
Mar 21 18:42:54 er0.rutgers.edu IMAP(dhalik): : [ID 512293 mail.warning] 
charset grows: used=8139, add=2089014
Mar 21 18:42:54 er0.rutgers.edu IMAP(dhalik): : [ID 512293 mail.warning] 
charset grows: used=8153, add=4186152
Mar 21 18:43:04 er0.rutgers.edu IMAP(dhalik): : [ID 512293 mail.warning] 
charset grows: used=8132, add=8380477
Mar 21 18:43:04 er0.rutgers.edu IMAP(dhalik): : [ID 512293 mail.warning] 
charset grows: used=8158, add=16769059
Mar 21 18:43:04 er0.rutgers.edu IMAP(dhalik): : [ID 512293 mail.warning] 
charset grows: used=8161, add=33546272
Mar 21 18:43:05 er0.rutgers.edu IMAP(dhalik): : [ID 512293 mail.warning] 
charset grows: used=8141, add=67100724
Mar 21 18:43:05 er0.rutgers.edu IMAP(dhalik): : [ID 512293 mail.warning] 
charset grows: used=8153, add=134209576
Mar 21 18:43:08 er0.rutgers.edu IMAP(dhalik): : [ID 512293 mail.warning] 
charset grows: used=8130, add=268427327
Mar 21 18:43:10 er0.rutgers.edu IMAP(dhalik): : [ID 512293 mail.warning] 
charset grows: used=8159, add=536862754
Mar 21 18:43:32 er0.rutgers.edu IMAP(dhalik): : [ID 512293 mail.warning] 
charset grows: used=8159, add=1073733666
Mar 21 18:43:57 er0.rutgers.edu IMAP(dhalik): : [ID 107833 mail.crit] 
Panic: Trying to allocate 2147483648 bytes