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

[Gunter Ohrner]

Hi!

I just wanted to know if anyone can give a definitive answer if dovecot 
beta's memory requirements are much better than in the old pre-alpha 
"stable" series?

I'm using a rather old stable.20050712 release on an also rather old 
Debian Sarge box to manage my personal mails. I'm pretty satisfied with 
this dovecot release but it's memory consumption when deleting 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. :-(

Adding even more swap space also is no viable option. (The system has 64 
MB RAM and currently about 650 MB swap space.)

So, would it be worth a try to install dovecot beta2 or something when 
it's released, or won't it help in this regard? I won't want to sacrificy 
the otherwise well working installation, if dovecot beta2 isn't 
guaranteed to help I'll continue to monitor available memory and swap 
space while cleaning up my spams...

Greetings,

  Gunter

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