Re: [Dovecot] imap memory footprint rather large

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? Is there a way to vacuum/reduce/optimise the cache?

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