Here's an IMO interessting observation/experience I made when I installed xmail the first time on my Debian 4 (Etch) and 5 (Lenny) boxes:
When I install it from the Debian repository (via apt-get or via aptitude etc.) then xmail eats up more than 200 MB RAM !!!. I couldn't believe it and have immediately deinstalled it! :-) But then I took a quick look into the source code and I couldn't believe that this clean C++ source really eats up that much memory (FYI I'm myself C++ programmer). Just for fun I compiled it myself and installed it and started it. What a surprize! xmail eats up only about 6 MB memory! Not 200 MB ! So, the xmail package maintainer at Debian must have done something badly wrong! Maybe you should inform the xmail package mainter at Debian. I've unfortunately no time at the moment because of switching my mail servers from qmail to xmail. FYI: This issue (6 MB vs 200 MB) is in my case very important because I run my mail servers on rented VPS boxes which have only 128 or 256 MB total RAM allocated for the whole VPS... cu _______________________________________________ xmail mailing list [email protected] http://xmailserver.org/mailman/listinfo/xmail
