Re: [Dovecot] Adding capacity by simply migrating to dovecot -- thank you

2009-12-09 Thread Benjamin Connelly
If you still want to reduce disk IO, you can also try (if you haven't already): - deliver: http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Indexing - maildir_very_dirty_syncs=yes: http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir We did switch from maildrop (and courier authd and cyrus sasl) to just dovecot (+sieve +

Re: [Dovecot] Adding capacity by simply migrating to dovecot -- thank you

2009-12-09 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 12:43 -0800, Benjamin Connelly wrote: > Like a miracle, the load average stays below 1 now, nor do the disks > saturate! All's well and webmail performs snappily even during peak > usage! If you still want to reduce disk IO, you can also try (if you haven't already): -

[Dovecot] Adding capacity by simply migrating to dovecot -- thank you

2009-12-09 Thread Benjamin Connelly
We run a mail service with some hundreds of domains and thousands of users. Xeon 2 CPU server hosting the imap, pop, webmail, db and all trimmings (sepparate servers scanning for spam/viri) The server was io saturated and performing poorly, especially for large webmail users. A constant que