Re: high memory problems with imap

2003-12-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 12:16, Theodore Knab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a courier/postfix maildir IMAP mail server with 10GB of RAM. Occasionally, the memory gets all chewed up and it becomes unusable. I think it becoming unusable because of buffer bounces. However, the documentation tells me

Re: high memory problems with imap

2003-12-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 22:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Baarda) wrote: On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 06:19:23PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: For such things instead of trying to patch a Debian kernel source tree or a kernel.org tree I recommend taking a working and tested kernel source tree such as

Re: high memory problems with imap

2003-12-06 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 06:19:23PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 12:16, Theodore Knab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] For such things instead of trying to patch a Debian kernel source tree or a kernel.org tree I recommend taking a working and tested kernel source tree such as

Re: high memory problems with imap

2003-12-06 Thread Theodore Knab
Thanks, that sounds like a perfectly good way to solve the problem. I never thought to use another distro's kernel. I guess it does not really hurt anything to use the RedHat kernel on a Debian system. Actually, I forgot that RedHat has been making a big effort to create a kernel that would

Re: high memory problems with imap

2003-12-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 12:16, Theodore Knab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a courier/postfix maildir IMAP mail server with 10GB of RAM. Occasionally, the memory gets all chewed up and it becomes unusable. I think it becoming unusable because of buffer bounces. However, the documentation tells me

Re: high memory problems with imap

2003-12-06 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 06:19:23PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 12:16, Theodore Knab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] For such things instead of trying to patch a Debian kernel source tree or a kernel.org tree I recommend taking a working and tested kernel source tree such as

Re: high memory problems with imap

2003-12-06 Thread Theodore Knab
Thanks, that sounds like a perfectly good way to solve the problem. I never thought to use another distro's kernel. I guess it does not really hurt anything to use the RedHat kernel on a Debian system. Actually, I forgot that RedHat has been making a big effort to create a kernel that would

high memory problems with imap

2003-12-05 Thread Theodore Knab
What Debian Linux Kernel works best for High Memory ( 4GB) machines that are under heavy io loads ? I have a courier/postfix maildir IMAP mail server with 10GB of RAM. Occasionally, the memory gets all chewed up and it becomes unusable. I think it becoming unusable because of buffer bounces.