[imp] Crazy memory usage when viewing attachments

[Kevin Konowalec]

On Dec 7, 2006, at 1:33 PM, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> Quoting Kevin Konowalec <webadmin at ualberta.ca>:
>
>> We were running into pretty consistent runaway httpd children when  
>> users would download large (> 30 MB) attachments.  Memory usage  
>> would balloon to at least 4 times the size of the attachment and  
>> the process would monopolize the CPU for literally several  
>> minutes.  (This was after removing or sufficiently increasing  
>> various Horde, PHP, and system-level limits as the httpd childs  
>> would segfault previously.)

[snip]

> I'm guessing this is necessary for some types, but I agree it  
> shouldn't be necessary for all of them. Can you please add this to  
> bugs.horde.org?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -chuck


Hi Chuck,

I've added it to the bug tracker.  I marked it as high priority as  
this problem basically renders imp useless when it comes to large  
attachments.

K