On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 14:22 +0300, Uldis Pakuls wrote: > donotify is more resource expensive - inotify allows monitoring of > both > files and directories via a single open fd. > so before you try --with-notify=none, try --with-notify=dnotify
Using dnotify dovecot's performance was very bad. The system consumes 90% of cpu with just a few imap process running (about 30 process). The performance using --with-notify=none was the same as using inotify, so it could be the solution for me. Raphael Costa