[Dovecot] the most serius problems [part 1]
Farkas Levente
lfarkas at bnap.hu
Wed May 28 14:46:33 EEST 2003
hi,
I try to collect out most serious problem with dovecot. so I write a
series of mails:-)
the first on is the load.
has anybody else use dovecot in a real enviromnt with at least hundreds
of users and at least 50 concurrent user at the same time?
it seems to me no one else just me.
the weekend I move the whole mail system to a quad P4 with 1Gb ram and
this server do nothing just imap. yesterday evening I have to delete all
.imap.index and other dovecot specific files. and as I wrote today
morning the load was about 20-30 !!!. but even in an average day the
load is over 2-3 white the cpu load is 1-2% in each of the 4 processor.
the system is totaly unusable. what more today I've got other errors. of
course all the time when I can't find the colution I try to escape to
the latest cvs. today finally I compile a new courier install it to
another port and those clients which can't connect to dovecot
reconfigure to courier. but they are not compatible!!! I have to set
root directory to INBOX in courier while not for dovecot and this is a
real big problem. is there any way to compile dovecot to use INBOX as a
root directory? since in this case at least there is a chance to switch
to courier without reconfigure 300 OE6.
I try to help to find out the reason for the load in any way, but it
seems to me than it's better to change to courier or cyrus since our
users getting angry not to mention my boss.
--
Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
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