[25-Jan-2008 00:21:34] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of
8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 2049 bytes) in /a/boao/www/webmail/roundcubemail-0.1-rc2/program/lib/imap.inc on
line 133
The HTTP response body was empty, status 200. Changing back all the values, deleting all messages with thunderbird (which worked very smoothly, btw)
A mailbox with a large number of messages takes a lot of memory to
display and handle. Thunderbird can simply request more memory from
your computer. RoundCube depends on the memory on the server, and how
much of that the server admin has allowed PHP and the web server to
get. Most admins keep a tight reign on the PHP memory allocation
because of security issues and the possibility of a runaway process
causing a type of Denial Of Service to other users. If you crash your
computer because T-Bird demands too much memory, it only impacts you.
If your requests on the server through RoundCube cause the server to
crash, that impacts many more users.
restarting the webserver; nothing mattered. It kept saying that in the logs. To eventually get it to work again I had to empty the trash with thunderbird and "compact" all the folders.
Using IMAP to mark messages as deleted doesn't actually delete the
message. That allows the "undelete" to happen, and also take very
little time to write just a few bytes of data to mark the message. It
is a safeguard for click-happy users, and a performance comprimise.
This isn't a RoundCube thing, it is an IMAP thing. When you "compact"
or "expunge" a mailbox, that causes the IMAP server to pick through
the entire mailbox a message at a time, transferring only the "good"
messages to a temp file, and then overwriting the mailbox file with
the temp file when it is done. This takes a long time. There is a
setting in T-Bird to control when this happens - there is a data
savings size threshold that when exceeded makes a delete trigger an
expunge.
Anyway, not that this is a very likely situation.. It's still quite interesting to see that once it's too full, it's too full and you're doomed if you don't have other means to access your INBOX :)
Did you try my suggestion of deleting the entire folder from the
"Folders" tab of "Personal Settings" ? I don't keep that many
messages in a mailbox for me to test.
Charles Dostale System Admin - Silver Oaks Communications http://www.silveroaks.com/ 824 17th Street, Moline IL 61265
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