Cris Daniluk wrote:
>
> Someone in an earlier message (I appologize for not remembering who)
> brought up the point that qmail lies about it size in memory because it
> uses shared memory. He said that qmail-remote would take up about 76kb of
> its own memory on his own machine. However, variou things will affect this
> size undoubtedly. Will qmail-remote store the message its sending in
> memory? If so, would it be reasonable to expect maybe 90kb per
> qmail-remote with 20kb messages? I think its safe to say that these are
> small differences, we're talking about a few kb here and there, but when
> you multiply by 255*4, it adds up quick :) What would be a reasonable
> memory footprint for a qmail-remote sending a 20kb message?
It does not store the message in memory. It get's it through a pipe
from qmail-rspawn which reads it from disk.
--
Andre
