Re: [Dovecot] lstats on all files in Maildir when opening an e-mail.

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Daniel Watts wrote:

Hi guys - So what can we use instead? We've just had 2 days downtime because Dovecot was using 100% of the disk. As reported above - every action on a user mailbox seems to lstat every file in the user's home.

So we've disabled quota completely and these millions of lstats have stopped.

We're running virtual users (all under a vmail system user) so fs quota is not workable. What do you recommend for a Maildir?

This is bad enough to almost work having Dovecot throw a: WARNING: dirsize not recommended with Maildir format.

Hi Daniel,

I am now using Maildir++ quotas (http://wiki.dovecot.org/Quota/Maildir).

Cheers.