On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 23:24 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> [2007.08.13.2259 +0200]:
Memory use seems to be O(n) in the size of the folder. On the folder with 70k messages, dovecot seems to allocate 280m of memory, which
I just saw in the logs:
mmap() failed with index cache file /home/madduck/.maildir/.store/dovecot.index.cache: Cannot allocate memory
and looking at the file, it's in fact 280m in size.
Does dovecot need to read/mmap the entire file?
mmaping the whole file doesn't have problems, as long as it fits into memory. By default mail_process_size=256 meaning it's limited to 256MB. This is just to make sure that if there are memory leaks Dovecot doesn't eat all the memory. So you could grow the value or even set it to 0 to disable it, and it would work just fine.
Is there a way to vacuum/reduce/optimise the cache?
You can always delete it, but if your client wants the same information all over again it gets grown to the same size. Probably it doesn't after the initial mailbox load. Dovecot should also drop unused fields from it after a week or so, but currently this isn't done.