jurgen wrote: > Hi, > > I've got dbmail 2.2.1 + mysql 4.1.21 running on a relatively > up-to-date Gentoo box. After some hours of use, dbmail-imapd starts > slowly gobbling more and more of my RAM. Eventually, this gets > completely out of control, we enter paging-hell for a few minutes, and > ultimately the server freaks out and kills MySQL. I have very few > clients accessing this system (about half a dozen or so). There are > only about 164,000 messages in the system too, so I don't think load > is an issue here. Happy to be wrong though. > > Right now, for example, I have a dbmail-imapd process taking up 75mb, > another at 34mb, and another at 28mb. This seems somewhat excessive, > and they just keep growing. I tried lowering the max connections per > child, but I haven't been able to get it stable. Currently, I'm > running with 100 max connections per child and 100 max children, which > again seems wrong. > > Any ideas? > > .....jurgen > I'm seeing something perhaps similar.
I'm trying to copy about 1GB of email (around 30k messages) from an old dbmail server to a new one. Both are running 2.2.1 from the debian packages. I'm using imapcopy to do the transfer and when it starts all is well, However looking at the memory usage on the "from" machine the dbmail-imapd process starts chewing memory like crazy. After about 5000 messages it reaches the limit of memory and everything stops. What can I do to find the problem? The from machine has 256mb ram and is running ubuntu 6.06 dapper.
