Re: IMAP is a memory hog

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

Brendan J Simon said:
>
> 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 ???

I use cyrus which is very very light on resources, looks like it takes
2MB of memory for the initial connection, maybe a bit more for large
folders(5-10+k messages)

because of this, it is very fast as well.

I hear courier is good too though I haven't personally tried it yet.

cyrus is by no means a drop in replacement for other IMAP servers it
has a lot of unique stuff specific to cyrus which can make migration
to it a pain, but for me it's worth it.

nate