[Dovecot] FreeBSD tuning for a dovecot + postfix server ?

mouss mouss at ml.netoyen.net
Mon Feb 14 23:11:40 EET 2011


Le 14/02/2011 11:08, Frank Bonnet a écrit :
> Hello
> 
> I've googled around  to tune a bit my mailhub ( AMD64 FreeBSD 8.1, 12 Gb
> RAM,

I guess you mean 12 Go (or 12 GB) ;-p

> 2 Tb raid5 disks , ~4000 mailboxes unix users )
> but I am a bit confused,
> 
> All my clients use thunderbird as MUA ( IMAP, IMAPS ) to connect to the
> mailhub
> no direct access to the machine.
> 
> Any of you guys has some pointer to give ?

the answer is: when tuning is needed, you will know it: you will have
concrete problems.

if you observe no problem, tune your week-end instead. as the saying
goes: "premature optimisation is the root of all evil".





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