[horde] How much memory to set memory_limit to? (SOLVED)

[Pro Green European]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Pro Green European <pro_green_european at yahoo.com>
> To: "horde at lists.horde.org" <horde at lists.horde.org>
> Cc:
> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 10:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [horde] How much memory to set memory_limit to?
> 
> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
>> To: horde at lists.horde.org
>> Cc:
>> Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 12:21 AM
>> Subject: Re: [horde] How much memory to set memory_limit to?
>>
>> 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
> 
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I do use the filesystem for VFS.
> 
> This is the error message with the exhausted memory error message:
> 
> PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 59 bytes) in /usr/share/pear/Horde/Cache/Storage/File.php on line 78,
> 
> These errors started appearing when I updated to the latest version, and when trying to update the .procmailrc file.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> /PGE

This was a configuration issue, in the hostspec setting for procmail (ingo), I forgot to set the proper hostname of the server to contact. Nevertheless, generating memory errors for this kind of configuration error is a bit confusing.

/PGE