Memory footprint reduction possible ?

[Carlos Horowicz]

Hi

Wil Cooley wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 00:06 -0300, Carlos Horowicz wrote:
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>>The process size of imapd, pop3d or lmtpd is between 60 and 100M , with 
>>resident size of only between 5 or 10M. I tried changing 
>>berkeley_cachesize , and the type of mailboxes.db (skiplist and  
>>berkeley) but nothing changed.
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>>DOes anybody have any suggestion on how to reduce the process size of 
>>imapd ?
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>Understand that the mapped virtual memory represents files that are
>mmap()'d into memory (likely most are part of the database files), but
>the pages are not necessarily loaded into memory until they're read.
>I'd guess the bulk of the memory in your RSS (resident size set; the
>physical memory that's actually used) are the per-mailbox database
>header cache files (and possibly the squat indexes).  Do you use
>squatter?
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No, I don't.

Interesting that pop3d, imapd and lmtpd all show the same footprint, and 
differ in a couple of megabytes in the resident size.

I've also set a limit into postfix to restrict the number concurrent 
delivery processes (done by /usr/local/cyrus/bin/deliver -m user) , as 
this generates also a lot of disk activity and might make them live too 
long in memory.

-Carlos

>Wil
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