[rt-users] out of memory on large attachments

[Vivek Khera]

I've got a problem with large attachments.  I have the 
$MaxAttachmentSize set to 1 MB since I don't really want large 
attachments in my RT...

However, I have the situation that when someone emails a ticket to me 
with a large attachment, of say, 5Mb encoded, RT issues a temporary 
error and the mail server retries that message over and over again, 
resulting in mayhem.  For example, I have one ticket that had like 80 
copies of the text part of the email, but no copies of the attached 
file (until I killed the message from the mail queue).

The RT error log shows something like this:

[Tue Aug 24 03:17:28 2004] [crit]: Out of memory during "large" request 
for 8392704 bytes, total sbrk() is 44761088 bytes at 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.4/CGI.pm line 679.

There's nothing of use from the maillog:

status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: RT server error.  
The RT server which handled your email did not behave as expected. It 
said:   )

So whatever error RT wanted to send back, it was too long for postfix 
to log...

RT 3.2.1
mod_perl 1.29
Postgres 7.4.3
FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE
apache 1.3.31
perl 5.8.4
cpan says I have the latest versions of all installed modules (except 
DBD::Pg which has a major bug in the latest version)

The data limit is set to 64Mb per process, which appears to be what 
we're hitting... how big do I need to make the memory limit to handle a 
5Mb attachment (so it can be refused due to the size limit)?
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