Re: IMAP is a memory hog

[Brendan J Simon <brendan.simon@bigpond.com>]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Brendan J Simon wrote:
>  
>
> > I've noticed that the IMAP daemon is very memory hungry.  I've noticed 
> > our server slowing down and swapping and top reports that imap is taking 
> > 50-70MB of memory.  Why so high ???
> >    
>
> Do you have some annoyingly huge emails, per chance?
I'm on lots of mailing lists and get lots of spam with lots of GIFS 
(humans with animals and other crap that I just ignore) :(

> > Is there a bug or is it just the way the IMAP protocol works (can't see 
> > how).  I've tried 2 IMAP servers with similar results.
> >    
> Have you tried cyrus21-imapd yet?
I don't think so.  How does it compare to the other IMAP daemons for 
features, speed and size ?

Thanks,
Brendan Simon.