On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 10:26 -0700, James Berry wrote:
If I read the code correctly, only dotlocks are supported for locking
of dovecot-uidlist. And I don't see any settings in the config file
for it.As it turns out, dotlocks are very slow on my system, due to their
implementation via hardlinks.Would it be possible to support other locking mechanisms for locking
of the uidlist file?
They are locked only when they are modified, and the modification works by creating a new file and renaming it over the dovecot-uidlist file.
Is it only hardlinks that are problematic? It shouldn't be too difficult to change the dotlock code to rely on working O_EXCL instead of hardlinks.
Hmm. Actually I just did that in CVS. I guess I should also put out some setting to enable it in config file. For now you could just change this:
ret = set->use_excl_lock ?
try_create_lock_excl(&lock_info, write_pid) :
try_create_lock_hardlink(&lock_info, write_pid);to
ret = try_create_lock_excl(&lock_info, write_pid);and see if it works faster.