[Dovecot] Config review (2.0.5)

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Oct 14 16:42:54 EEST 2010


On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 13:42 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> * Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt at charite.de>:
> 
> > Colleague returned from vacation today and gave some ideas.
> > Today I turned off the "mail_log" and "notify" plugins and the load
> > dropped considerably. Both plugins were used with default settings.
> 
> I left all settings unchanged and examined the machine. Load stays
> low, so something the way how logging is done in 2.0.x must have
> changed.

Load as in I/O load or CPU load?.. If CPU, which process was eating it?
I can't think of any good reason why mail_log would be doing anything
that would cause such problems (other than maybe just logging too much
stuff and causing problems because of that).




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