Dovecot performance tuning
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Disk I/O optimization
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Usually heavily loaded IMAP and POP3 servers don't use much CPU, but they use
all the disk I/O they can get. So reducing disk I/O is probably the most useful
optimization you can do.
* See <MailLocation.LocalDisk.txt> for generic disk I/O optimizations.
* See <MailLocation.Mbox.txt> for mbox-specific optimizations.
* See <MailLocation.Maildir.txt> for Maildir-specific optimizations.
CPU usage optimization
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* See <LoginProcess.txt> for optimizing CPU usage caused by logins
* See 'auth_cache_size' setting for caching passdb and userdb lookups
Memory usage optimization
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There aren't many settings which affect Dovecot's memory usage. About the only
such settings are 'auth_cache_size' and <LoginProcess.txt> settings. In general
Dovecot uses as much memory as it needs, which is usually quite little.
Note that these settings do not directly affect the memory usage:
* 'service { vsz_limit } ': These are simply safe guards against potential
memory leaks. If the process's virtual size reaches the limit, the process
is killed by the kernel.
* 'service { process_limit, client_limit } ': These are mostly to avoid DoS
attacks using up all your memory.
(This file was created from the wiki on 2011-01-13 04:52)
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