imapd, Roxen and IMHO
Marek Habersack writes:
> I have been experiencing performance problems when accessing the user
> inboxes with IMAP using IMHO on Roxen ever since the imapd_4.5-8 release,
> that is from the point where the default mailbox root has been reverted to
> $HOME. Today, when one of my user accessed his particularily huge home
> directory, the Roxen's pike RSS reached 400MB within 5 minutes and was
> growing! The load average reached 3.94 within the same time. Modifying the
> sources and setting the default mailbox root to $HOME/mail/ made all the
> problems disappear. Therefore I'd like to propose a small change to the
> imapd (or rather c-client) source code to read the default mailbox root from
> either the environment or from /etc/c-client.cf. If there's a need, I can
> write the relevant code, because the problem is really grave IMO and since
> there's no upstream solution to that, perhaps doing it just for Debian is
> the right way?
there is currently a roxen-1.3rel2 release, which is not yet packaged
for Debian. This includes some changes to pike and roxen. I did not
investigate anything, if this upstream change would solver your
particular problem.
Reply to: