[Dovecot] Dovecot performance issues with many writes

[Jan-Frode Myklebust]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 03:30:07PM -0600, Andy Robbins wrote:
> We are currently experiencing performance issue with our Dovecot system
> which we believe is caused by excessive writes to the dovecot files. The
> confusing thing is that we are seeing more writes than reads on our Dovecot
> volume when you would assume that most of the IO should be reads from
> customers checking their mail.

Have you mounted the fs without noatime options? 


  -jf