[Dovecot] maildir memory usage

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Apr 24 15:59:20 EEST 2006


On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 10:39 -0400, lenny at edpausa.com wrote:
> Dovecot beta 5 + dovecot lda, solaris 9 sparc.
> 
> Dovecot seems to use a lot of memory with large Maildir folders,
> ( 300-500 mb folder - 100-200 mb process), something I never noticed with
> similarly large mboxes.
> Is that expected behavior or are my observations incorrect.

It's not expected behavior. How many messages do the maildirs have?
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