Please could you help me to understand and fix why my dovecot IMAP
performance is so bad? I've read through a lot of the
performance-related material on the website, but I don't think that any
of it could account for slowness at the level that I am seeing.
The simplest scenario is moving a messag
Aki Tuomi writes:
> On 24 February 2018 at 12:45 Neil Jerram < n...@ossau.homelinux.net> wrote:
>
> Please could you help me to understand and fix why my dovecot IMAP
> performance is so bad? I've read through a lot of the
> performance-related material on the
Aki Tuomi writes:
>> On 24 February 2018 at 15:47 Neil Jerram wrote:
[...]
>> > Feb 24 10:24:24 arudy dovecot[1712]: imap(neil): Warning:
>> > Transaction log file
>> > /home/neil/dovecot-mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log was locked
>> > for 98 secon
Aki Tuomi writes:
> Yes. You deffo are looking at several reasons for slowness.
>
> I can only recommend moving into maildir or sdbox format, and probably new
> HDD too.
>
> https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Sync here is example of 'converting'
> between mailbox formats using dsync. You s
