Re: [Dovecot] best way to activate quota

2012-09-14 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El 07/09/12 12:28, Robert Schetterer escribió: I have tried to activate it in one of my nodes. The problem is that load of it has increase a lot, as much as the system was unusable (maildir is in nfs storage, with indexes in local disks). that might not be the optimal storage solution

Re: [Dovecot] best way to activate quota

2012-09-12 Thread Alessio Cecchi
Il 12/09/2012 00:28, Timo Sirainen ha scritto: On 12.9.2012, at 1.21, Gábor Lénárt wrote: Sorry to jump into this topic, but can I ask why? Is dict quota is superior over Maildir++ quota in performance in general or it is only about the fact, that it's better in the case like above:

Re: [Dovecot] best way to activate quota

2012-09-12 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El 12/09/12 00:28, Timo Sirainen escribió: Activating quota is equally slow, because it needs to scan sizes of all files. If the size is stored in maildir filename (,S=123) this is pretty fast, otherwise it's pretty slow because Dovecot stat()s the files, but afterwards it stores them to

Re: [Dovecot] best way to activate quota

2012-09-12 Thread Gábor Lénárt
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 01:28:58AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: Activating quota is equally slow, because it needs to scan sizes of all files. If the size is stored in maildir filename (,S=123) this is pretty fast, otherwise it's pretty slow because Dovecot stat()s the files, but afterwards it

Re: [Dovecot] best way to activate quota

2012-09-12 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El 12/09/12 13:34, Gábor Lénárt escribió: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 01:28:58AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: Activating quota is equally slow, because it needs to scan sizes of all files. If the size is stored in maildir filename (,S=123) this is pretty fast, otherwise it's pretty slow because

Re: [Dovecot] best way to activate quota

2012-09-11 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 7.9.2012, at 13.11, Angel L. Mateo wrote: Hello, I'm planning to activate quota control in dovecot, with maildir quota backend. I have about 70k users in my system directed to 4 backend servers (with a director to ensure that a user is always directed to the same server).

Re: [Dovecot] best way to activate quota

2012-09-11 Thread Gábor Lénárt
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 07:20:02PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 7.9.2012, at 13.11, Angel L. Mateo wrote: Hello, I'm planning to activate quota control in dovecot, with maildir quota backend. I have about 70k users in my system directed to 4 backend servers (with a director

Re: [Dovecot] best way to activate quota

2012-09-11 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 12.9.2012, at 1.21, Gábor Lénárt wrote: I'm planning to activate quota control in dovecot, with maildir quota backend. I have about 70k users in my system directed to 4 backend servers (with a director to ensure that a user is always directed to the same server). I have tried

[Dovecot] best way to activate quota

2012-09-07 Thread Angel L. Mateo
Hello, I'm planning to activate quota control in dovecot, with maildir quota backend. I have about 70k users in my system directed to 4 backend servers (with a director to ensure that a user is always directed to the same server). I have tried to activate it in one of my nodes. The

Re: [Dovecot] best way to activate quota

2012-09-07 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 07.09.2012 12:11, schrieb Angel L. Mateo: Hello, I'm planning to activate quota control in dovecot, with maildir quota backend. I have about 70k users in my system directed to 4 backend servers (with a director to ensure that a user is always directed to the same server). sounds