Stan Hoeppner, 2010-03-16 08:45: > Regarding memory usage, on Linux anyway, you should really read this Timo. > It would be mutually beneficial to Dovecot (and Postfix, and etc). I've not > played with it yet, and I don't have a busy server to test it on, but I'm > betting it would seriously benefit those running servers with hundreds of > concurrent users. I'm going to spin this into my next kernel and play with > it.
AFAIK, KSM is primarily useful for vservers (xen, kvm etc.) running the same software. How would running a single instance of dovecot (or any other daemon) profit by that? AFAICS, "generates many instances of the same data" does not apply to dovecot (or most other deamons).
