Awfully slow dovecot

[Jeff Mitchell]

On Dec 25, 2014 3:15 PM, "Reindl Harald" <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
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> Am 25.12.2014 um 21:09 schrieb Benny Pedersen:
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>> Robert Schetterer skrev den 2014-12-25 19:49:
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>>> Am 18.12.2014 um 17:56 schrieb Robin Helgelin:
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>>>> We’re using dovecot 1.0.7
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>>> that version is total out of date , update to recent version
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>> centos is a precompiled problem :=)
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> no it is not
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> do you realy think the RPMS are falling from heaven or is it more likely
be able to use rpmbuild as i do on Fedora for packages like
dovecot-2.2.15-3.fc20.20141025.rh.x86_64 or
postfix-2.11.3-1.fc20.20141020.rh.x86_64?
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> your Gentoo is nice in a small environment
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> on larger setups someone is using binary packages and can setup his own
repo with overrides while maintain *testable* setups
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Just to point out, it is possible to set up a binary Gentoo setup with a
single server compiling packages then made available to downstream
computers -- I ran such a setup for a few years. Can also have multiple of
these in an overlay fashion for testing. Pros and cons vs. normal binary
distros, but it can be done.

Anyways, regarding the OP's problem, 1.0.7 is only the latest available
package from RedHat/CentOS. It's so out of date and so many bugs have been
squashed that it makes little sense for anyone to spend much time trying to
figure out the problem. Even Red Hat doesn't support it in production
anymore.

Might be time to break out the compiler.