Bart Samwel wrote: > Package: courier-imap > Version: 3.0.8-13 > Severity: normal > > I have a strong suspicion that courier-imap is the cause of massive fam > memory leakage on my system. I use courier-imap to manage several huge IMAP > folders on my system (Linux Kernel mailing list, tens of thousands of > messages present at any time), connecting using a Mozilla Thunderbird > client. Every now and then I notice that my system gets _really_ slow, > and then it turns out that famd is using 1.7 GB of memory, using up all > available swap. I can restart it, and it will be small again, but then > it starts growing again over time. The only frequent fam user on this > system is courier-imap, the system is a server machine so it doesn't > usually have any fam connections from desktop programs etc. There are > only two connecting users (it's a home server), so I'm pretty sure the > problem is connected to my own mail workload. > > Unfortunately this problem is a bit hard for me to isolate (I don't have > a spare machine to create an isolated test case), but I wanted to report > it anyway, just in case someone recognizes the problem and knows a way > to fix it. I'll try to find a small way to reproduce it at some point, > I'm a bit busy right now so it might be a while. :-/
Please check out http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9938012&forum_id=33081 for hints concerning your problem. Bye Racke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
