Re: [Dovecot] Scalability plans: Abstract out filesystem and make it someone else's problem

2010-03-11 Thread Sebastian Färber
>b) Use threads, either via some library or implement yourself. Each thread of >course uses some extra memory. Also enabling >threads causes glibc to start >using a thread-safe version of malloc() (I think?), which slows things down >(unless that can be avoided, >maybe by using clone() directly

Re: [Dovecot] Optimizing POP3 performance?

2008-01-04 Thread Sebastian Färber
> The main issue here is that qmail-pop3d violates POP3 spec and returns > wrong message sizes. The size that should be reported to POP3 clients is > the one with linefeeds counted as CR+LF pairs instead of plain LFs. This > doesn't seem to break clients, but I don't want to violate specs just to >

[Dovecot] Optimizing POP3 performance?

2008-01-04 Thread Sebastian Färber
Hello, I recently migrated to Dovecot from Courier-IMAP and i'm very happy with the IMAP Performance and Dovecot in general. The server is running qmail-ldap and i'm still using the qmail pop3 daemon for the POP3 users. Because i want to get rid of qmail completely (switching to exim) i just tried