On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

=>Slepp Lukwai writes: => =>> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Sam Varshavchik wrote: =>> =>> =>Slepp Lukwai writes: =>> => =>> =>> Ignore me if this is a FAQ, but I haven't seen any information about it =>> =>> yet... =>> =>> =>> =>> I have one mailbox with a meagre 2505 messages in it at the moment, and =>> =>> when I issue a server side sort of the mailbox based on thread/subject =>> =>> from PINE, it goes for a bit and imapd uses 100% CPU on the mail server. =>> =>> After about 10 seconds, imapd abruptly closes the connection reporting
the =>> =>> sort failed. Any ideas on this one and what might be causing it? I don't =>> =>> think 2500 messages is such a bad thing to request a sort of.. [cut some here] =>There is no way to debug this other than to trace the server process.

So I guess you've not seen this problem yourself..

I'll first try using an strace on the server to see why it's exiting in the first place, maybe that'll lend some idea. If nothing there, I'll try the debugging outputs of imapd (I'm not sure how extensive those are).

After some watching, I've seen the server use about 1.5 megs of RAM before it fails. I'm also compiling in the PINE debugging so that I can watch the IMAP protocol communications easily.