[Dovecot] How many concurrent IMAP sessions?

[Patrick Ben Koetter]

* Timo Sirainen <dovecot at dovecot.org>:
> On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 11:51 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 11:48 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > > So it basically just issues NOOP commands and does no disk I/O (opens no
> > > index files or anything). Looks like each imap process uses about 420 kB
> > > of memory (420 MB total according to "free" before/after). That's
> > > actually more than I thought. Wonder if I could decrease it..
> > 
> > Actually imaptest was using about 50 MB and other Dovecot processes
> > maybe 5-10 MB, so it was more like 360 kB per imap process. Slightly
> > better but I think it could still lose 100-200 kB :)
> 
> Hmm. Now the same calculation shows only about 230kB/process. I don't
> think I even changed anything..

Funny to see you wondering. You always seem to have it all under control. :)

What could cause the variation?