Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
> >On a second trial, it's also failed on Python 2.3.5 for Windows, Python
> >2.3.3 for Windows, and Python 2.2.3 for Windows. So this seems to me as
> >a Windows system related bug, not a particular version of Python bug.
>
> Arguably, it's a bug in Python's imaplib module. Sure, the Windows memory
> allocator is feeble and falls over when asked to do perfectly reasonable
> things.
if you look at the debug output (which you may already have done),
it's an obvious case of fragmentation-inducing behaviour. any malloc-
based system may choke on the sequence
for a large number of attempts:
allocate a 15 megabyte block
shrink block to a couple of kilobytes
occasionally allocate a medium-sized block
from what I can tell, replacing the
data = self.sslobj.read(size-read)
line with
data = self.sslobj.read(min(size-read, 16384))
should do the trick.
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