> > > After only 8000 messages delivered, the 20 (IDLE) processes > > > are each eating 14-20 MB of ram, totaling around 330MB ram. > > Yes, exactly the symptoms on my box, except I've limited > > dbmail-lmtpd to 5 processes. > I killed dbmail-lmtpd, and restarted them again.. And I'm back > to the same memory usage again already. > > Definately not good for busy servers.
Reduce MAXCONNECTS in the [LMTP] section. Not too good for very busy servers too, but you have a known maximum memory usage. > As a little status update, I now have 13.000 mail in the database > consuming about 1.2GB mailbox space and 1.5GB total db size on disk. > Delivery is getting a little slower than initally too, averaging 70mail > per minute now. (Again: Untweaked setup) It would be interesting to see how many mails can be inserted if the mails are inserted in one transaction, should be a lot more. If it's only a testbox: could you try cvs head to see the difference? Thomas -- http://www.tmueller.com for pgp key (95702B3B)
