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])
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