Sieve - multiple cores/CPUs

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Fri, 25 Sep 2015, Paweł Grzesik wrote:

> I have a quick question about the Sieve in Dovecot. I know that this is a
> plugin so probably it depends on the Dovecot itself but:
>
> is it able to use multiple cores/CPUs when doing the filtering? does the
> filtering for each mail user run on a separate core?

When a message is deliviered, a new process is forked. So, yes, if there 
are multiple simultaneously deliviered messages, multiple cores are used.
But no, for one particular message the process uses just one core.

But I suppose, that this does not answer your question?

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Steffen Kaiser
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