18 Dec
2009
18 Dec
'09
6:11 p.m.
On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote:
We use the original RH dovecot-1.0.7, mbox-format and mailboxes up to 4 GB ... (historicaly grown ...)
Have you set mbox_very_dirty_syncs=yes?
grep mbox_very_dirty_syncs /etc/dovecot.conf #mbox_very_dirty_syncs = no
so, I think "no" is the default.
Setting this to "yes" is may be faster?
Are you using Dovecot deliver? If not, setting this to "yes" will help a lot.
Anything in logs? Anyway my guess is that it spends all the time reading those 4 GB mailboxes..
With that guess, you are not the only one ... beside my guts ... ;-)
If I do have the time, I'd like to switch over to e.g. maildir
Yeah, maildir would be a good idea.