Hi all,
I'm sure my issues are a result of misconfiguration, but I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I'm getting pressure to move us back to GroupWise, which I desperately want to avoid :-/
We're running dovecot 1.2.9 on Ubuntu 10.4 LTS+postfix. The server is a VM with 1 vCPU and 4GB of RAM. We serve about 10,000 users with anywhere from 500-1000 logged in at any one time. Messages are stored in Maildir format on two NFS servers (one for staff, the other for students).
Today I implemented the "High performance" setup described here: http://wiki.dovecot.org/NFS (mainly moving indexes off of NFS, since I'm only using the one server).
I also added imapproxy to our webmail client server (SOGo). The vast majority of our users come in over the web.
We currently see load averages spiking into the 20-30 range. When this happens, service crawls to a near standstill, and ultimately the SOGo client starts crashing out.
I'm wondering if anything jumps out at anybody here - feel free to mock if/when you find an obvious configuration problem. I just want it to work :-)
dovecot -n
# 1.2.9: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf # OS: Linux 2.6.32-25-server x86_64 Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS log_timestamp: %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve listen(default): * listen(imap): * listen(pop3): * listen(managesieve): *:2000 ssl_cert_file: /etc/dovecot/certs/mail_nhusd_k12_ca_us.crt ssl_key_file: /etc/dovecot/certs/mail_nhusd_k12_ca_us.key disable_plaintext_auth: no login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login login_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap-login login_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3-login login_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve-login login_process_per_connection: no login_process_size: 512 login_processes_count: 20 login_max_processes_count: 3000 login_max_connections: 64 max_mail_processes: 2048 mail_max_userip_connections(default): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(imap): 20 mail_max_userip_connections(pop3): 10 mail_max_userip_connections(managesieve): 10 mail_access_groups: staffmailusers mail_privileged_group: dovecot mail_uid: mail mail_gid: 502 mail_location: maildir:~/Maildir:INDEX=/var/indexes/%u mail_nfs_storage: yes mbox_write_locks: fcntl dotlock mail_executable(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/imap mail_executable(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 mail_executable(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/managesieve mail_plugins(default): acl imap_acl quota imap_quota expire mail_plugins(imap): acl imap_acl quota imap_quota expire mail_plugins(pop3): mail_plugins(managesieve): mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/imap mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/pop3 mail_plugin_dir(managesieve): /usr/lib/dovecot/modules/managesieve namespace: type: private separator: / inbox: yes list: yes subscriptions: yes namespace: type: shared separator: / prefix: shared/%%u/ location: maildir:%%h/Maildir:INDEX=~/Maildir/shared/%%u list: children lda: deliver_log_format: %$ -- FROM=%f SUBJECT=%s mail_plugins: cmusieve acl expire log_path: info_log_path: syslog_facility: mail postmaster_address:postmaster@nhusd.k12.ca.us hostname: mail.nhusd.k12.ca.us auth_socket_path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master auth default: passdb: driver: pam passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf socket: type: listen master: path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode: 384 plugin: quota: maildir:User quota quota_rule: *:storage=9G quota_rule2: Trash:storage=200M acl: vfile acl_shared_dict:file:/home/staff/dovecot/shared-mailboxes expire: Trash 7 Trash/* 7 Spam 30 expire_dict: proxy::expire sieve: ~/.dovecot.sieve sieve_dir: ~/sieve sieve_extensions: +imapflags dict: expire: mysql:/etc/dovecot/dovecot-dict-expire.conf
-- Chris Hobbs Director, Technology New Haven Unified School District
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