Re: [Dovecot] POP3 vs. IMAP Load/Memory usage in Dovecot 1.0.15

2011-07-11 Thread Rainer Frey
On 11.07.2011, at 17:03, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > The R410 is a two socket Xeon box with max 2 x 6 core CPUs. The 24 CPUs > you see is the result of HyperThreading being enabled. I'd disable HT > if I were you, or those boxen mine. Why? Rainer

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 vs. IMAP Load/Memory usage in Dovecot 1.0.15

2011-07-11 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 00:21 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Are these virtual machines? You didn't state so previously. Running > 2.6.18 as a VM guest on these machines may also be part of the incorrect > load reporting problem. If so, run the data collector daemon inside the > hypervisor itself s

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 vs. IMAP Load/Memory usage in Dovecot 1.0.15

2011-07-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/11/2011 2:57 PM, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 13:47 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> On 7/11/2011 11:22 AM, li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk wrote: >> >>> They're showing as between 20 and 24 for the POP3 servers and 1.4 for >>> the IMAP servers. >> >> FULL STOP. Oh my lo

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 vs. IMAP Load/Memory usage in Dovecot 1.0.15

2011-07-11 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:57:36 +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: LOL. I'm not a fan of Centos but it's what we've got to play with here - We'll be running Debian (or possibly even Gentoo if I have my way...) on the next load of servers and custom kernels aren't an issue. /me misses stage

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 vs. IMAP Load/Memory usage in Dovecot 1.0.15

2011-07-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 07/11/11 15:57, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > > LOL. I'm not a fan of Centos but it's what we've got to play with here - > We'll be running Debian (or possibly even Gentoo if I have my way...) on > the next load of servers and custom kernels aren't an issue. Just don't tell anyone: htt

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 vs. IMAP Load/Memory usage in Dovecot 1.0.15

2011-07-11 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 13:47 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 7/11/2011 11:22 AM, li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk wrote: > > > They're showing as between 20 and 24 for the POP3 servers and 1.4 for > > the IMAP servers. > > FULL STOP. Oh my lordy. Something is ridiculously wrong here. You > have 12

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 vs. IMAP Load/Memory usage in Dovecot 1.0.15

2011-07-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/11/2011 11:22 AM, li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk wrote: > They're showing as between 20 and 24 for the POP3 servers and 1.4 for > the IMAP servers. FULL STOP. Oh my lordy. Something is ridiculously wrong here. You have 12 physical cores with only ~600 simultaneous pop connections. That's onl

Re: [Dovecot] Many "Error: Corrupted index cache file /XXX/dovecot.index.cache: invalid record size"

2011-07-11 Thread Florent Bautista
No one has any idea of what happens ? I forgot to say that mailboxes are MailDir format. Le 05/07/2011 17:46, Florent Bautista a écrit : Hi all, I just joigned this list, so I'm sorry if this problem has already been reported. I'm running Dovecot 2.0.13 on many servers, one for POP/IMAP acc

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 vs. IMAP Load/Memory usage in Dovecot 1.0.15

2011-07-11 Thread lists
* All the servers are made by the same manufacturer (Dell) * They are all the same model (R410) * The have the same engine (24 cores, 24G RAM, SAS Drives) The R410 is a two socket Xeon box with max 2 x 6 core CPUs. The 24 CPUs you see is the result of HyperThreading being enabled. I'd disable

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot NFS locking issue

2011-07-11 Thread Giulio Casella
Look at mbox_read_locks and mbox_write_locks parameters. From http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/mbox: There are at least four different ways to lock a mbox: • dotlock: mailboxname.lock file created by almost all software when writing t

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 vs. IMAP Load/Memory usage in Dovecot 1.0.15

2011-07-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/11/2011 8:20 AM, li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk wrote: > Hi Stan, > > Quoting Stan Hoeppner : > >> On 7/11/2011 4:28 AM, li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk wrote: >>> Quoting Stan Hoeppner : >> This still doesn't provide us with the necessary information to give you >> an intelligent answer to your qu

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot NFS locking issue

2011-07-11 Thread satish patel
Anyone ? > From: satish...@hotmail.com > To: dovecot@dovecot.org > Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 17:08:40 + > Subject: [Dovecot] Dovecot NFS locking issue > > > Hi All, > > We had 15 imap/pop UW-imap servers behind load balancer and mail storage was > NFS for almost around ~30,000 users on it.

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 vs. IMAP Load/Memory usage in Dovecot 1.0.15

2011-07-11 Thread lists
Hi Stan, Quoting Stan Hoeppner : On 7/11/2011 4:28 AM, li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk wrote: Quoting Stan Hoeppner : This still doesn't provide us with the necessary information to give you an intelligent answer to your question. Sorry, I thought I'd given quite a large amount of detail so far

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot indexes

2011-07-11 Thread William Blunn
On 08/07/2011 11:35, Mike Prispan wrote: could someone answer my following questions about dovecot indexes? - If I delete dovecot indexes, it recreates them without any problem, right? AFAIK, for mbox and Maildir: True, for sdbox and mdbox: False. - If dovecot recreates indexes, it does no

[Dovecot] compressed folder bug

2011-07-11 Thread Giulio Casella
I found a strange behaviour in dovecot compressed folder, maybe a bug. It happens only if you have one (and just one!) email in a gz compressed folder. I'm talking about a mbox server. Step to reproduce: - create a new folder, using any client (I think this step is not important, it happens also

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 vs. IMAP Load/Memory usage in Dovecot 1.0.15

2011-07-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/11/2011 4:28 AM, li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk wrote: > Quoting Stan Hoeppner : > >> On 7/11/2011 1:24 AM, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: >>> On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 10:48 +0100, li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk wrote: We have noticed that the IMAP servers appear to be under much less load

[Dovecot] drac plugin "net_ip2addr() failed: Operation not permitted"

2011-07-11 Thread Michael Moritz
Hi, I'm trying to get the drac plugin working (again) but I'm stuck with the following message: Restarting IMAP/POP3 mail server: dovecotEDRAC: net_ip2addr() failed: Operation not permitted This is on a Debian Squeeze box, dovecot version 1.2.15-7, drac version 1.12 Looking at the source it sh

Re: [Dovecot] Lots of LMTP errors Remote server not answering (DATA output timeout) (in reply to end of DATA command))

2011-07-11 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El 08/07/11 14:04, Angel L. Mateo escribió: El 08/07/11 12:18, Angel L. Mateo escribió: Hello, I have configured two dovecot servers with director acting as lmtp/imap/pop proxy server with 8 dovecot backend servers. In our test environment we had no problem, but when we migrated to production

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 vs. IMAP Load/Memory usage in Dovecot 1.0.15

2011-07-11 Thread lists
Quoting Stan Hoeppner : On 7/11/2011 1:24 AM, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 10:48 +0100, li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk wrote: We have noticed that the IMAP servers appear to be under much less load and utilising drastically less RAM than the POP3 servers and I'm wonderin

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.13 and removing IMAP folders in thunderbird

2011-07-11 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 10.07.2011 18:36, schrieb Christian Roessner: > Hi, > >> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Clients#Thunderbird >> >> protocol imap { >> imap_client_workarounds = tb-extra-mailbox-sep >> } >> >> That should also solve your second problem. > > thank you VERY much :-) This really solved my problems > >

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot 2.0.13 and removing IMAP folders in thunderbird

2011-07-11 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 10.07.2011 18:00, schrieb Christian Roessner: > Hi, > > I use Dovecot-2.0.13 with mdbox and Thunderbird (IMAP). I have dozens of > imap folders and sometimes I wish to delete several folders: > > First Problem: > > If I remove a folder under TB, it get moved to my Trash folder. After > that I

Re: [Dovecot] POP3 vs. IMAP Load/Memory usage in Dovecot 1.0.15

2011-07-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/11/2011 1:24 AM, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 10:48 +0100, li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk wrote: >> We have noticed that the IMAP servers appear to be under much less >> load and utilising drastically less RAM than the POP3 servers and I'm >> wondering if there is

[Dovecot] dsync and compressed folders

2011-07-11 Thread Giulio Casella
I'm trying to migrate my old dovecot server (mbox based) to a new one (maildir based), both are version 2.0.13. I'm using dsync: oldserver# dsync -u username backup ssh root@newserver dsync -u username Everything is working like a charm but when it tries to convert compressed folder I got an e

Re: [Dovecot] Dovecot indexes

2011-07-11 Thread Willie Gillespie
On 07/08/2011 04:35 AM, Mike Prispan wrote: Hi, could someone answer my following questions about dovecot indexes? - If I delete dovecot indexes, it recreates them without any problem, right? I believe this depends. Maildir and mbox I don't think care. However, dbox and mdbox do and you'll l