limiting cpu time of dovecot/imap

Sami Ketola sami at ketola.io
Mon Nov 1 20:04:03 EET 2021



> On 1. Nov 2021, at 19.25, Marc <Marc at f1-outsourcing.eu> wrote:
> 
> What would be the best way to 'throttle' dovecot/imap processes of specific users?
> 

Can you please elaborate a bit how you would like to ‘throttle’ the processes? Give it less CPU time?

That you can probably achieve by returning service/imap/executable="/usr/bin/nice -n 10 /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap"
from users for the throttled users.

Sami



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