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From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan)
Subject: [sup-talk] sup-sync and xapian memory usage
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:15:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1252415545-sup-3158@masanjin.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090907170450.GO14010@pimlott.net>

Reformatted excerpts from Andrew Pimlott's message of 2009-09-07:
> Last time I tried to use sup[1], I posted about sup-sync crashing with
> various symptoms of memory exhaustion[2].

Excellent resolution to that thread.

> sup's memory use is many times the attachment size.  Testing on an
> mbox with a single message with 4 ~5M (encoded size) attachments
> (total file size ~21M), sup goes up to ~150M.  Accounting for
> baseline, that's about 6 times the file size.  I hope that can be
> improved.

Sup uses the unmaintained RubyMail for MIME handling. I'm sure this
behavior can be improved if you can find someone who wants to write some
MIME handling code. Personally that's near the bottom of my list.
-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>


      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-08 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-07 17:04 Andrew Pimlott
2009-09-07 18:14 ` Ben Walton
2009-09-07 18:33 ` Rich Lane
2009-09-07 19:11   ` Ben Walton
2009-09-07 19:15     ` Rich Lane
2009-09-08 13:39       ` William Morgan
2009-09-08 13:58         ` Ben Walton
2009-09-08 14:27         ` Richard Heycock
2009-09-08 15:14           ` Nicolas Pouillard
2009-09-09  6:18             ` Rich Lane
2009-09-07 19:26   ` Andrew Pimlott
2009-09-08 13:15 ` William Morgan [this message]

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