[imp] IMP memory consumption

[lst_hoe01 at kwsoft.de]

Zitat von ibj at earthlink.net:

> I've recently installed Horde, IMP and Turba on my web server. It's a very
> impressive application, and everything seems to be working flawlessly, but
> I'm concerned about the memory consumption. Each time IMP is started, or the
> INBOX is refreshed, between 2-4MB of available system RAM is consumed. This
> appears to be gradually released back to the system after the IMP session is
> terminated, but what will be the effect if many users were to access their
> mailboxes concurrently? I'd like to avoid disk-swapping as much as possible.

Limit the max. concurrent connects you are allow is all you can do. This should
be  a lot with 1 GB RAM.

> I thought the culprit might be the POP3 software, but accessing the POP
> mailbox from other mail clients doesn't produce this memory drain. Could this
> be a configuration setting that I've set up improperly, or is it normal
> behavior? I'd appreciate any thoughts or suggestions!

Most of the memory is normally spend for PHP executing the IMP scripts and the
optimizer caching pre-compiled scripts.

Regards


Andreas