IMAP hibernate feature committed

Axel Luttgens axel.luttgens at skynet.be
Fri Aug 28 16:52:39 UTC 2015


> Le 25 août 2015 à 01:27, Timo Sirainen a écrit :
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> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/64c73e6bd397
> 
> Today I finally committed the "imap-hibernate" feature that I first started developing about a year ago (and had been thinking about for several years before that). The main purpose here is to reduce the number of imap processes and the amount of memory they use by moving IDLEing connections into imap-hibernate processes where they are waiting for something to happen (changes to the mailbox or IMAP client to do something). Mailbox changes are noticed only if inotify/kqueue is enabled, so without them the hibernation feature won't work well.
> 
> […]

Wow!
I remember you told us about such a development some times ago; many, many thanks for having persevered.

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to test that feature in a near future. In the meantime, I’ll be enthusiastically reading any report our list’s fellows could share. :-)

Axel



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