[Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

Amon Ott ao at m-privacy.de
Fri Jun 25 15:44:40 EEST 2010


On Friday 25 June 2010 wrote Charles Marcus:
> On 2010-06-24 9:18 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > But with auth cache enabled, there is no extra database load. The
> > index files are also most likely in OS's cache (assuming local disk),
> > so no extra disk I/O to read them either. I'm sure it's a bit more
> > extra CPU usage, but I'm not all that certain that it's really that a
> > big of a difference with Dovecot.
>
> We have very few web users, so I really didn't see anything noticeable
> performance wise, but I'll always use it just for the much cleaner logs.

For whatever it is worth, we use imapproxy, because it allows us to use 
one-time passwords for webmail users. One login, not many.

Amon Ott
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