[Dovecot] lot's of timeouts

[Timo Sirainen]

On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote:

>>> We use the original RH dovecot-1.0.7, mbox-format and mailboxes up to 4
>>> GB ... (historicaly grown ...)
>> 
>> Have you set mbox_very_dirty_syncs=yes?
> 
> grep mbox_very_dirty_syncs /etc/dovecot.conf
> #mbox_very_dirty_syncs = no
> 
> so, I think "no" is the default.
> 
> Setting this to "yes" is may be faster?

Are you using Dovecot deliver? If not, setting this to "yes" will help a lot.

>> Anything in logs? Anyway my guess is that it spends all the time reading those 4 GB mailboxes..
>> 
> 
> With that guess, you are not the only one ... beside my guts ... ;-)
> 
> If I do have the time, I'd like to switch over to e.g. maildir

Yeah, maildir would be a good idea.