[Dovecot] dsync on large mailbox "fails"

[Timo Sirainen]

On 24.4.2012, at 20.05, Jeff Kletsky wrote:

> On 4/24/12 3:26 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On 24.4.2012, at 6.38, Jeff Kletsky wrote:
>> 
>>> 25934 jeff          1 103    0   135M   102M CPU2    2 128:47 100.00% doveadm
>> Looks like it could be in an infinite loop. To find out where:
> http://wildside.wagsky.com/dovecot/2012-04-24/54097/doveadm.truss.log.bz2

That's a lot of getdirentries() calls in there, repeating all the time. So I don't think it's an infinite loop, just a lot of slowness repeating the same work over and over again. See if it helps if you add:

maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes