[Dovecot] Proxying Performance vs imapproxy

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Sep 28 21:08:31 EEST 2009


On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 14:06 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> Yeah. imapproxy probably reduces the load a bit, but it probably isn't
> anything dramatic with Dovecot. My guess is that it would only reduce
> CPU load, but if it's at ~1% already then there's not that much point..

BTW. I'm only talking about systems where mailboxes are on local disk.
With NFS each login would trigger some NFS reads which could slow things
down more. With local mails those things would already most likely be
cached in memory.

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