On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 21:56 +0100, Pascal Mouret wrote: > > See if setting mbox_lazy_writes=no helps. > > > That's it !!! I changed the line and it did the trick !! (To be more > accurate, on my debian box, I had then to issue a /etc/init.d/dovecot > restart. A simple /etc/init.d/dovecot force-reload was not enough) > Thank you very much > So it may be a problem when the flags are copied from the index file > onto the main mbox file, right ?
Something like that. Strange that other people haven't complained about it being broken. Anyway v1.1 has fixed this already. > Is there a performance penalty of setting mbox_lazy_writes to no by the > way ? Yes. > Now, on a busy server, with a lot of flag changes (or rather a lot of > flag additions), would that make a noticeable difference ? No idea. It does make Dovecot do more work.
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