[Dovecot] imap memory footprint rather large

[martin f krafft]

also sprach martin f krafft <madduck at madduck.net> [2007.08.14.1552 +0200]:
> > So I guess most of the data in your dovecot.index.cache file
> > came from some initial FETCH ENVELOPE/BODYSTRUCTURE/etc. for all
> > messages. If you delete it, it won't probably get as large
> > anymore.
> 
> This is true, I deleted it and it went back to 12 Mb, taking most
> of our performance problems with it.

I found the file to be ever growing, so when it had grown back to
160Mb in a single day, I decided to employ cron on the mail server:

  11 4 * * * find $HOME/.maildir -type f -name dovecot.index.cache -exec rm {} \;

Since my mail is fetched in the background anyway, I am happy to
take the performance hit first thing in the morning.

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