[Dovecot] index file vs. memory

[Johannes Berg]

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 16:58 +0100, Gunter Ohrner wrote:
> > You could also check if it's really heap that's eating the memory or if
> > it's just mmaped index files. If you're running Linux, could you do
> > cat /proc/<imap process pid>/maps and show me what it says?
> 
> Ok, second test: 

[...]

It's just mmapped files:
20426 gunter     9   0  185m  15m  960 S  0.2 26.1  68:21.00 imap


See, it's only using 15m real memory, the rest (170m) is virtual --
mmap()ed files.

So what's the problem?

johannes
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