[Dovecot] How many concurrent IMAP sessions?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Sep 30 23:14:13 EEST 2009


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..

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