On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 10:05:59AM +0300, Yousif Alkhateeb via dovecot wrote: > Hello , > > I have an active passive dovecot setup with glusterfs as a mail storage and > using maildirs, we used to have a problem when users with large mailboxes > sync their folders. This caused the load average to increase in the server > , after a while we have enabled the very_dirty_sync option in dovecot , > things got better and the problem disappeared but we need to know if there > is any thing else that we need to do or know about the very_dirty_sync > option that may cause future problems .
What's the scale of this problem? I.e., how large are the troublesome "large mailboxes"? A gigabyte? A terabyte? a few megabytes? -- hendrik
