[Dovecot] Strange dmesg messages

Raphael Bittencourt S. Costa raphaelbscosta at gmail.com
Mon Apr 7 20:38:05 EEST 2008


On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 14:22 +0300, Uldis Pakuls wrote:

> donotify is more resource expensive - inotify allows monitoring of
> both 
> files and directories via a single open fd.
> so before you try  --with-notify=none, try --with-notify=dnotify

Using dnotify dovecot's performance was very bad. The system consumes
90% of cpu with just a few imap process running (about 30 process). 
The performance using --with-notify=none was the same as using inotify,
so it could be the solution for me.

Raphael Costa


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