Words by Giorgenes Gelatti [Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 03:38:50PM -0300]: > Hello All, > > I've been studying dovecot for replacing my company's current system > and I got a little worried about an aspect of the dovecot's design. > I was surprised that dovecot doesn't use prefork for its mail > processes, forking a new processes for each new client connection. > > Talking in the #dovecot channel I was gave a scenario of a system > supporting ~40k users with 4 servers just fine. > I wonder how well dovecot would scale if we increase this number of > users by some order of magnitude like, say, 4M users. >
Well, we have 8 servers for that amount of users. > It is well known that preforking is a good pratice if you want to > achieve a higher performance. Some say it's premature optimization. > When I was asked about it I readily answered: "of course it does". For > my surprise later, i doesn't. > > Do you have any plans to support preforking in the near future? > -- Jose Celestino | http://japc.uncovering.org/files/japc-pgpkey.asc ---------------------------------------------------------------- "One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh." -- Robert A. Heinlein
