[Dovecot] Lot of dovecot process writes

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 06.03.2013 13:15, schrieb Angel L. Mateo:
> Hello,
> 
>     While monitoring my servers' behaviour (ubuntu 12.04 with dovecot
> 2.1.9, with about 70000 users) I have found that lots of disk usage is
> done by dovecot process (the parent process). Since lmtp, imap and pop3
> connections are handle by their own process, what could be the reason of
> this?
> 

maildir may no be optimal for such high amount of users, use i.e mdbox

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/dbox


Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer

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