[horde] How much memory to set memory_limit to?

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Simon Brereton <simon.brereton at buongiorno.com>:

> On 25 November 2011 16:20, Pro Green European
> <pro_green_european at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I've set 512M as the default memory_limit value in PHP for my  
>> webmail system.
>>
>> How much should I really allocate? I think 512M is quite a lot of memory.
>>
>> I've tried with 384M, but it didn't take long before I started  
>> seeing memory exhausted messages in Apache's error log.
>
> This was discussed at length a few weeks ago because of an issue I was
> having.  You should be able to find the thread in the archive.  Some
> were ok with 256, some recommended 512 and some even proposed 1024.
> Currently I'm up to 384, but I can go to 512 if I get more out of
> memory messages.

And as I previously mentioned, all of these values seem exceedingly  
high.  Especially for viewing a message.

The only possibility of reaching this kind of memory use is by using  
the SQL VFS backend.  This is now highly discouraged - use the  
filesystem VFS backend instead.

michael

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