From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan) Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:15:49 -0700 Subject: [sup-talk] sup-sync and xapian memory usage In-Reply-To: <20090907170450.GO14010@pimlott.net> References: <20090907170450.GO14010@pimlott.net> Message-ID: <1252415545-sup-3158@masanjin.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