[Dovecot] Re: Dovecot memory use and settings

[Roger Weeks]

On Jan 14, 2006, at 10:59 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 10:43 -0800, Roger Weeks wrote:
>>    # SQL database
>>    userdb sql {
>>      args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf
>>    }
>>
>>    # Number of authentication processes to create
>>    #count = 1
>>
>> I have changed this to count=20 on my servers and since then I have
>> not experienced any out of memory issues with auth-workers or the
>> MySQL client.
>
> Did you check if the dovecot-auth processes keep constantly growing?
> Maybe they're still growing, but since you have 20 of them, they're  
> just
> not reaching the maximum limit as fast as with fewer processes?

They don't seem to be constantly growing, not as far as I can tell by  
watching the memory usage of a few individual processes.

Also, I notice that with this setting, my machines are actually using  
less RAM overall than they were with the default count=1.

Roger Weeks