28 May
2010
28 May
'10
11 p.m.
Timo Sirainen put forth on 5/28/2010 10:55 AM:
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 20:14 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
What, if anything, am I sacrificing, or what new problems might I cause, by using mbox_very_dirty_syncs=yes? Previously I was using mbox_dirty_syncs = yes.
If non-Dovecot MUAs modify mbox simultaneously (except appends by MDA are ok), Dovecot might not notice those changes immediately and it might log some errors sometimes.
So it's the same caveat as with mbox_dirty_syncs = yes. If the caveats are the same, why do both settings exist, given that mbox_very_dirty_syncs=yes yields superior performance? Is there more potential danger with mbox_very_dirty_syncs? That was the impression I had, thus why I was using the "milder" setting.
-- Stan