[Dovecot] Migration questions...

[Phillip Macey]

On 15/05/2009 9:49 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 09:35 +1000, Phillip Macey wrote:
>   
>> We are having some performancec issues on our server at the moment - all 
>> I can put it down to is the large size of some maildirs. Eg. `ls -ld 
>> Maildir/cur` might show a directory >20Mb in size for some of our users 
>> (20-30k emails).
>> (Performance issues == everything is running ok then all of a sudden 
>> load avg goes through the roof, system cpu time goes crazy. Reading mail 
>> grinds to a halt. Then everything recovers just as suddenly and the load 
>> avg gradually returns to normal levels)
>>     
>
> Do you have POP3 users? What clients do your users typically use?
>   
50% pop. 50% imap.. Roughly.
> BTW. Kind of nasty to hijack a pretty much unrelated thread to your
> question..
>   
Apologies, I wasn't intending it to be a hijack. Steffen said he had no 
problems. I was only making trying to point out that maildir can also 
have its problems as well. I dont know how MBox would handle the same 
situation because we dont have any MBox storage.

I may post another thread if we still have problems after I have 
finished tidying up some peoples maildirs.


-- 
Thanks,
  Phill Macey

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