On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 16:05 +0200, Claude Frantz wrote:
Timo Sirainen wrote:
I think that the large number of now running processes is the rebuilding of the index. I am right here, Timo ?
Index updates typically don't take long. Although if client fetches some metadata that isn't in cache file, Dovecot needs to open the messages and parse them. That takes some I/O. This can be avoided with v1.1 by using deliver, since it updates the cache file immediately.
I have tried it using deliver in the version dovecot-1.0.10-0_66.fc7. Each delivery run was longer when using maildrop, but the load was too high too. Do you think that in the version 1.1 the behavior would be different ?
Yes, the main benefit of deliver with Maildir is when it updates the cache file, but v1.0 deliver doesn't do that.
NFS is still a problem.
Do you use a single Dovecot server or multiple? v1.1's NFS support for multiple servers is a lot better than with v1.0.