[Dovecot] dovecot seems to be slow

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Nov 1 16:29:20 EET 2004


On 29.10.2004, at 11:07, Götz Reinicke wrote:

> after the update from wu-imap to dovecot, opening e-mails on the imap 
> server seems slower than with wu-imap. I haven't measured any speed 
> yet, but clicking on a message in a folder takes sometimes a couple of 
> seconds to open the mail.
>
> Any ideas or performance tips or information you need?

1.0-tests have much better mbox performance. With 0.99.x there's not 
much you can do.

The reason it takes a few seconds to open a mail is because new mail 
came to mailbox and Dovecot re-reads the mbox before opening the 
message. mbox_dirty_syncs = yes setting in 1.0-tests avoids this.
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