I am running RH7.3, Courier-IMAP, SM, vpopmail with server-side threading enabled. My memory usage is out of site. On a box with 1GB RAM, over a period of 2 days, all memory will be consumed. I would love some help finding the problems.
Thanks, Ken <quote who="Lee Brink"> > Thanks for the suggestions. I'll talk with our mail server administrator > and post to the list what I find out. > > Lee > > > Jonathan Angliss said: >> Hello Lee, >> On Wednesday, April 02, 2003, Lee Brink wrote... >> >>> [If this is the wrong forum for this, please let me know] >> >>> I'm running SquirrelMail in production for a mid-sized University >>> (30,000+ students, staff, & faculty, <number> of simultaneous >>> connections) and I'm trying to get a sense of the hardware >>> requirements. What we're currently seeing is that SquirrelMail via >>> Apache chews up available memory very quickly (95% within two hours >>> or so), and then creeps towards 100% until it consumes all memory and >>> swap space. CPU utilization stays low (5-30% used) and the load >>> rarely cracks 1 during the entire time. On average we're seeing >>> 60-80 simultaneous connections at any given time. >> >> Something you may want to check is see if your IMAP server supports >> server side sorting. If it does, enable it in your config/config.php >> file... That often helps a lot. The other thing that often needs >> looking into is the IMAP server itself. Sometimes if an IMAP server is >> slow, apache/php/squirrelmail can chunk up a lot of memory processing >> the details. I've noticed this in particular with UW-IMAP because of >> the method of storing mail results in a long time to process large >> mailboxes. Also the default compile of UW-IMAP stores mail in ~/ which >> results in all files being read in that directory, even those that >> aren't mail folders. >> >> -- >> Jonathan Angliss >> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > -- > Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying > to prove that the other party is unfit to rule, and both commonly > succeed, and are right. - H. L. Mencken > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: > Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! > No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server > http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ > -- > squirrelmail-users mailing list > List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > List Archives: > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users -- Regards, Kenneth D. Johnson ---------------------------------------- Email services provided by KYOnline.net, A division of World View Resources, Inc. http://www.kyonline.net/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
