[Dovecot] best way to activate quota

[Timo Sirainen]

On 7.9.2012, at 13.11, Angel L. Mateo wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 	I'm planning to activate quota control in dovecot, with maildir quota backend. I have about 70k users in my system directed to 4 backend servers (with a director to ensure that a user is always directed to the same server).
> 
> 	I have tried to activate it in one of my nodes. The problem is that load of it has increase a lot, as much as the system was unusable (maildir is in nfs storage, with indexes in local disks).
> 
> 	What do you think is the best to activate it?

Use dict-file quota instead of Maildir++ quota.