Well, I try, but according to documentation - auth-workers are used for
mysql and not for postgres.
Nothing changes. auth process raises cpu% to 100 and performance not
raised anyway.

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM Aki Tuomi <aki.tu...@open-xchange.com>
wrote:

> Try setting
>
> auth_cache_verify_password_with_worker=yes
>
> and see if this helps?
>
> Aki
>
> > On 13/02/2025 14:55 EET Anatoliy Zhestov via dovecot <
> dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I set up a test server and started testing it by multiple threads
> (1-200),
> > using all the advice given to me.
> > 1 I disabled the postlogin script
> > 2 raised maxconns to 200
> > 3 set  service_count = 400, process_min_avail = 100
> > 4 increase auth_cache
> > 5 increase the pool in postgres
> > 6 enable high-performance mode for imap-login
> >
> > However, the performance of the auth service seems limited by one core
> and
> > cannot rise above 30-40 logins per second for our processor (60-70 with
> > warm cache).
> >
> > Still, is there any way to parallelize this?
> > Having 48 cores to be limited by the performance of the one is too sad.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM Timo Sirainen <t...@sirainen.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 3. Feb 2025, at 20.18, Anatoliy Zhestov via dovecot <
> > > dovecot@dovecot.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >> Are you sure the problem is authentication / pgsql? You could test
> with
> > > >> looping "doveadm auth lookup $user" rapidly. Of course for different
> > > users
> > > >> to avoid them coming from cache. Or if you can reproduce it that
> way,
> > > try
> > > >> if the same happens for repeating the same user so it does come from
> > > cache.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > i test in condition when 90% of imap connection is already
> established.
> > > > auth cache is enabled so i guess tests with the same user are not
> > > relevant.
> > > >
> > > > -------- less loaded server
> > > > ps waux|grep imap-login|wc -l
> > > > 24977
> > >
> > > Oh, somehow I missed that you have this many concurrent connections.
> > >
> > > > echo "13285 / 343" |bc
> > > > 38 (per second)
> > >
> > > So with this speed 24977 users would take 11 minutes to login back,
> which
> > > is a bit slow.
> > >
> > > Some ideas:
> > >
> > > 1) If pgsql is the bottleneck, try multiple pgsql connections: Add
> > > maxconns=4 (or whatever) to the dovecot-sql.conf.ext's connect line.
> > >
> > > 2) In your Dovecot proxy (assuming you have one?) you can configure it
> to
> > > spread over disconnections over a long time, if the issue is that
> backend
> > > disconnects everyone at once. login_proxy_max_disconnect_delay setting
> does
> > > this.
> > >
> > > 3) With that many connections and to make logins faster, you'd be
> better
> > > off using
> > >
> https://doc.dovecot.org/2.3/admin_manual/login_processes/#high-performance-mode
> > >
> > > 4) To optimize login performance, it would be best to get rid of the
> > > post-login script. Also:
> > >
> > > service imap {
> > >   service_count = 1000
> > >   process_min_avail = 10
> > > }
> > >
> > > 5) auth_cache_size is rather small. Likely could be increased much
> larger.
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