[Dovecot] Degeneration of CPU Performance

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Fri May 8 10:12:41 EEST 2009


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On Thu, 7 May 2009, Thiago Monaco Papageorgiou wrote:

> I looked for some bugs about this, but I didn't find anything. The question

v1.1.6 is pretty old, though.

> I attached dovecot -n output. Two important information: we store the 
> mailboxes in NFS and we are only using pop3 protocol.

What's hashdir? Maybe this is a performance killer?

Did you checked things like memory consumption and if there are processes 
which do consume lots of CPU, e.g. via "top" or similiar command. Maybe 
your server spends the time on the network?

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser
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