[Dovecot] maildir memory usage

[lenny at edpausa.com]

> 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?
>

The biggest folder I can find now has ~70000+ messages and when that's
open the process grows to 116mb, I'm not seeing 200mb+ process sizes
today, but I certainly have seen them, so I'll keep looking for patterns.