Thomas Hummel wrote: > The same machine is running postfix-2.4.6 with amavisd-new-2.5.4 (no > spamassassin) and clamav-0.93.1. I'm using procmail-3.22 as the LDA. > > I installed dovecot-1.1.2 on non-standard ports for test and plan to > switch to > it as I read on this list it performs better, load wise.
Also, Dovecot v1.1 should do better with NFS. > Every friday a message (no attachement, decent size) is sent to all users > : in > such circumstances (but only sometimes, not every time : let's say half > the > time such a message is sent), the load goes so high that I have to stop > dovecot > to let procmail deliver the message or even reboot the machine. How about doing some rate limiting in Postfix, or even moving that to a different server? Anders.