I had this problem when running under vmware (time slippage). I took vmware out of the loop and all is well.
Also, you should be using ntpd, not cron and ntpdate -b.
Paul A wrote:
Hi, using the latest dovecot with pop3/imap. Using mostly outlook 2003 for pop3 and squirrel mail imap.
I have a lot of users reporting back that imap is very slow. We average about 300 imap and another 700 pop session at any given time.
Here's my config:
disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /usr/local/var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login login_greeting: Cape.Com D-V.1 ready. login_processes_count: 14 max_mail_processes: 9000 mail_location: maildir:/home/%1u/%u/Maildir mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_uidl_format(default): pop3_uidl_format(imap): pop3_uidl_format(pop3): %v.%u pop3_client_workarounds(default): pop3_client_workarounds(imap): pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh auth default: count: 4 passdb: driver: pam userdb: driver: passwd
I'm trying to figure out what im doing wrong, I was seeing the same performance issues with .99.
Here's what im seeing for connections,
[root@pop etc]# ps aux | grep pop3 | wc -l 562 [root@pop etc]# ps aux | grep imap | wc -l 254 [root@pop etc]#
I am having a time issue on this server and im not sure if its affecting dovecot.
May 29 11:42:19 pop dovecot: POP3(xxx): Time just moved backwards by 1 seconds. I'll sleep now until w e're back in present. May 29 11:42:19 pop dovecot: POP3(xxx): Time just moved backwards by 1 seconds. I'll sleep now until w e're back in present. May 29 11:42:31 pop dovecot: POP3(xxx): Time just moved backwards by 1 seconds. I'll sleep now until w e're back in present. May 29 11:42:42 pop dovecot: POP3(xxx): Time just moved backwards by 1 seconds. I'll sleep now until w e're back in present.
Thanks,
P