Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot performance issues with many writes

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 03:30:07PM -0600, Andy Robbins wrote:

We are currently experiencing performance issue with our Dovecot system which we believe is caused by excessive writes to the dovecot files. The confusing thing is that we are seeing more writes than reads on our Dovecot volume when you would assume that most of the IO should be reads from customers checking their mail.

Have you mounted the fs without noatime options?

-jf