On 8/24/2009, Emmanuel Seyman (esey...@edd.fr) wrote: > I'm using Dovecot 1.0.15 on our internal mail server and I'm seeing > a high load from one of our users.
Upgrading might help (1.0.15 is old), but there are lots of things that can cause this. > This user uses Thunderbird (with the IMAP protocol) and the load > average of the server goes through the roof every once in a while. > I'ld like to understand why we're seeing this and whether the blame > should be put on Thunderbird or on Dovecot. > > Has anyone ever seen this before? dovecot -n output and logs exhibiting the problem will go a long way to providing an answer. Obvious possibility: is the user moving/deleting a large number of messages at once? Again, upgrading is highly recommended (1.2.4 is current stable), but I'd also suggest reading about optimizing at the bottom of this page: http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir -- Best regards, Charles
