[Dovecot] netapp/maildir/dovecot performance

[bofh list]

On 3/25/07, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 14:19 -0400, bofh list wrote:
> > We are seeing some poor performance recently that is focused around
> > users with large mailboxes (100,000 message /INBOX, 80,000 message
> > subfolders, etc).
> >
> > The performance problem manifests as very high system% utilization -
> > basically iowait for NFS.
>
> Did you use Dovecot's quota plugin? With what backend?

We are not using quotas.  As much as I would like to, it's not an
option at this time.