Re: limiting cpu time of dovecot/imap

[Marc]

> > 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.
>

Thanks Sami, I was experimenting with some external script that applied 
cpulimit and ionice to processes. But this suggestion is of course much nicer. 

Re: limiting cpu time of dovecot/imap

[Sami Ketola]

> On 1. Nov 2021, at 19.25, Marc  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

limiting cpu time of dovecot/imap

[Marc]

What would be the best way to 'throttle' dovecot/imap processes of specific 
users?