[Dovecot] v2.1 memory usage

[Timo Sirainen]

On 6.11.2012, at 17.26, Ed W wrote:

> On 05/11/2012 23:22, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 23:40 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>> Anyway, looks like Dovecot can't link OpenSSL to imap/pop3 processes
>>> without wasting a ton of memory. In v2.2 I already moved imapc/pop3c
>>> backend code to plugins to avoid this. Looks like similar ugliness is
>>> needed for other features/backends also that may end up using SSL code.
>>> (We were wondering with Stephan what to do about his new HTTP library
>>> code that added support for SSL. It would be nice to keep it in the core
>>> libdovecot.so, but not if it links with SSL. So looks like we'll need
>>> some kind of a http-ssl plugin that is loaded only when needed.)
>> Implemented it a bit easier way that also gets rid of imapc/pop3c
>> plugins and simplifies other things: lib-ssl-iostream now loads OpenSSL
>> dynamically: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/68d21f872fd7
>> 
>> This also provides a nice abstraction to OpenSSL, making it again
>> possible to implement other backends like GnuTLS or NSS. (Except login
>> process code doesn't use lib-ssl-iostream yet.)
> 
> Does libtomcrypt implement enough?

It doesn't do SSL, which is all Dovecot cares about.