Mutt's RAM usage (was: IMAP server side search integration)
On 2005-09-06 00:15:08 +0100, Paul Walker wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 12:03:26AM +0100, Dickon Hood wrote:
> > mutt's RAM usage is pretty good, TBH. screen(1) uses more RAM.
>
> It is good, but I've noticed that with 1.5.10 it seems to have a
> tendency to drift upwards, which I don't think it used to do. This
> mutt was only started yesterday, for example, and hasn't been used
> for any particularly large emails, and it's already up to 12MB
> resident (according to top). There aren't any particularly large
> shared libraries, so the rest of it must be going *somewhere*...
And concerning huge mailboxes: On my 38900-message mailbox (maildir
format), Mutt takes 43 MB resident, i.e. about 1 KB per message.
This seems to be quite a lot.
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