Dovecot performance tuning ========================== Disk I/O optimization --------------------- 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 for generic disk I/O optimizations. * See for mbox-specific optimizations. * See for Maildir-specific optimizations. CPU usage optimization ---------------------- * See for optimizing CPU usage caused by logins * See 'auth_cache_size' setting for caching passdb and userdb lookups Memory usage optimization ------------------------- There aren't many settings which affect Dovecot's memory usage. About the only such settings are 'auth_cache_size' and 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 2011-11-16 14:09)