[Dovecot] lot's of timeouts

Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de
Fri Dec 18 18:14:52 EET 2009


Timo Sirainen schrieb:
> 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.

Nop,

grep procmail /etc/mail/sendmail.mc

define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH', `/usr/bin/procmail')dnl
FEATURE(local_procmail, `', `procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u')dnl
MAILER(procmail)dnl


> 
>>> 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.

2010...


/Götz
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