[Dovecot] High level of pop3 popping causing server to become unresponsive

[Root Kev]

So the best way to would be to remove it that part completely, or should it
be stored somewhere on disk?

Thanks again,

Kevin


> Hi,
>
> Having a system with a third of our users on POP3 (2300000 of them), no
> trouble with dovecot (v2.1.5, on CentOS 5).
> But one thing surprises me in your config, the INDEX=MEMORY in the
> location parameter. That means that for each POP3 connection, dovecot has
> to read each and every mails to create the index in memory. That might be
> why the machine becomes unresponsive.
> Unless you have a specific reason to use memory index (and I would be
> curious to know about it), I would suggest to remove this and keep standard
> file indexes, and your performances should improve a lot.
>
> Regards,
>
>        Thierry
>
>