Reduce memory consumption

discartMC

Hi,

I’m planning to subscribe to a VPS as I need to run some services, and since I’m gonna pay for it I thought of running my own email server on the VPS (also for privacy reasons). It’s going to have just a few users (<5), mostily using imap to acess the accounts, but I read that the minimum requirements for Mailcow is 6-8 GB of RAM.

While the VPS has 8GB, I would prefer to reduce this consumption to leave more memory avaliable for the other services (which are nothing major, but still). What can I disable (and should) on mailcow to archive this goal? I read that I can disable ClamAV and Solr. What’s the impact on memory usage of disabling these two? Any other ones that I can disable?

Thanks, and great work with mailcow by the way 🙂

omexlu

Disable clamd and solr and your fine 🙂

dervomsee

I am using mailcow with all features on on a Contabo VPS 700: https://contabo.com/de/storage-vps/vps-700/
This is for my setup (5 users) more than enough.
Additionaly i am hosting a Joomla page, Seafile file sync and stats with InfluxDB2 and Grafana.
This setup uses in mean 4GB RAM. Your 8GB VPS should be OK.
BR, Cornelius

discartMC

Cool, thanks for the reply guys. I’m at easy now. I’ll be setting everything up soon.

sebastian

Don’t be afraid of using memory. If you have free memory all the time, you can downgrade relaxed. I known, it’s a bit off topic 😅