Offlineimap memory usage

[James Stapley <james.stapley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
I'm not sure if this is in fact normal, but I think I'm seeing rather 
abnormal memory usage in offlineimap? I've been using it for a few 
months now, and not paid attention to it's memory footprint until just 
now, so I don't have a baseline to compare it against.

Here's the line from ps aux:
<user>      7097  2.1 31.2 718312 159832 ?       Sl   12:16   0:40 
/usr/bin/python2.5 /usr/bin/offlineimap -c /home/<myuser>/.offlineimaprc

It's using over 31% of the memory on the system! (I checked again a 
moment ago and it's now up to 46.8%, and now falling again)

I use offlineimap to sync email for multiple users (4-6, depending on 
who actually needs it) from one single .offlineimaprc file between two 
servers (basically mirroring mail between an internal and an external 
server).

The system also has amavisd, clamav and spamassassin (spamd/spamc), 
which could perhaps be "interfering" (slow mail processing?).

I'm using offlineimap 6.2.0 on Ubuntu 8.04.x (server), (a virtual 
machine, running in vmware server v1.x with 512mb RAM allocated to it).

Is this kind of memory usage normal, or is there anything I can do to 
bring it down?

Many thanks and best regards,

James.





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