[Dovecot] dovecot performance

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Aug 20 00:07:25 EEST 2008


On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 12:13 -0300, Sebastien Tandel wrote:
> Hi Timo,
> 
> On 14 Aug 2008, at 17:04, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 
> > On Aug 14, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Giorgenes Gelatti wrote:
> >
> >> I've been studying dovecot for replacing my company's current system
> >> and I got a little worried about an aspect of the dovecot's design.
> >> I was surprised that dovecot doesn't use prefork for its mail
> >> processes, forking a new processes for each new client connection.
> >
> > Login processes are preforked and they can also be configured to  
> > keep reusing existing processes. But yes, post-login imap/pop3  
> > processes aren't preforked because it would require a larger  
> > redesign of the master process. Which is actually what I have been  
> > planning on doing for v2.0 for a long time now.
> 
> Do you have pointer(s) to some mails / wiki pages talking about your  
> ideas of implementation of pre-forked process pool?

No. The plans are still pretty vague.

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