You could also add it as setting for the fts_xapian plugin parameters? 

Aki

> On 04/11/2020 08:42 Joan Moreau <j...@grosjo.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> For machines with low memory, I would like to detect how much ram remains 
> available before starting indexing a mail, so I can commit everything on disk 
> before the ram is exhausted (and break the process)
> I tried to put a "fake" allocation to test if it fails, (so it can fail 
> separately, and I can "if ram remaining is above X") but the is really not 
> clean
> 
> 
> 
> On 2020-11-04 06:28, Aki Tuomi wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > On 04/11/2020 05:19 Joan Moreau <j...@grosjo.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hello
> > > I am looking for help around memory management
> > > 1 - How to get the current value of "vsz_limit" from inside a plugin 
> > > (namely https://github.com/grosjo/fts-xapian/ ) , especially for 
> > > indexer-worker
> > > 2 - Is there a macro or function in dovecot to get the remaining free 
> > > memory from this vsz value ?
> > > Thank you
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi Joan,
> > 
> > I don't think there is a feasible way to access this setting as of now. Is 
> > there a reason you need this? We usually recommend setting vsz_limit=0 for 
> > indexer-worker.
> > 
> > Aki
> >

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