* Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi>:
> On 8.11.2010, at 7.34, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> 
> > I'm getting constantly high numbers of page reclaims & involuntary
> > context switches for dovecot/auth.
> 
> Is it intentional that you have both passdb shadow and passdb pam enabled?

If I leave out on of them, the masteruser feature isn't working anymore.
Which one should I be using?

> > type                real    user    sys     reclaim faults  swaps   bin     
> > bout    signals volcs   involcs
> > auth                205.93  1.32    2.76    25280   0       0       0       
> > 0       0       261     1425
> 
> It's still only 2.76 seconds of system CPU from the total of 205 seconds it 
> was running, so that can't really cause the big system CPU usages you see..

Please note that I was measuring this in the morning. I'll have to
keep it running a whole day in order to get "crtiical" values. Then
I'll suffer a beating from my colleagues for thrashing the server :)

> What about after you stop Dovecot? Then you should see lines from the 
> permanently running processes (master, anvil, log).

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