[Dovecot] dovecot memory consumption beta vs. old "stable" series

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 00:53 +0100, Gunter Ohrner wrote:
> > > messages causes major troubles on this box - more than 500 MB of
> > > virtual memory allocated to the "imap" process is quite a lot and
> > > often causes random processes to fall victim to the OOM killer. :-(
> > Umm. If it's allocating 500MB when deleting messages there's something
> > seriously wrong. I haven't heard this happening with any Dovecot
> > version before.
> 
> Ok. Well, it does and it's easily reproduceable with this stable 
> release. :-)
> 
> I want to upgrade dovecot to a recent beta. If the problem also happens 
> with this version, I could try to help to track it down. Or should I 
> first do some tests with the currently installed release?

Probably easier if you just try if beta3 has fixed this already, so we
don't waste time for nothing :)