[Dovecot] Panic: Trying to allocate 2147483648 bytes

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 15:25 -0400, David Halik wrote:
> So far 
> everything is working smoothly, but when someone does a search through 
> directory with a large number of emails, dovecot dies and prints the 
> following message:
> 
> [ID 107833 mail.crit] Panic: Trying to allocate 2147483648 bytes

So you can easily reproduce this?

> I grabbed a backtrace if it is helpful:

Yes, very helpful! Is it possible to also examine variable values?

Could you try applying this patch:
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/98a59fd61d7f

and also the attached patch. What error does it fail in?
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