[Dovecot] Custom flags in v1.0.15

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Feb 26 23:12:36 EET 2009


On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 21:56 +0100, Pascal Mouret wrote:
> > See if setting mbox_lazy_writes=no helps.
> >   
> That's it !!! I changed the line and it did the trick !! (To be more 
> accurate, on my debian box, I had then to issue a /etc/init.d/dovecot 
> restart. A simple /etc/init.d/dovecot force-reload was not enough)
> Thank you very much
> So it may be a problem when the flags are copied from the index file 
> onto the main mbox file, right ?

Something like that. Strange that other people haven't complained about
it being broken. Anyway v1.1 has fixed this already.

> Is there a performance penalty of setting mbox_lazy_writes to no by the 
> way ?

Yes.

> Now, on a busy server, with a lot of flag changes (or rather a lot of 
> flag additions), would that make a noticeable difference ?

No idea. It does make Dovecot do more work.
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