[Dovecot] dovecot performance

Sebastien Tandel
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:13:53 -0000

Hi Timo,

On 14 Aug 2008, at 17:04, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Aug 14, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Giorgenes Gelatti wrote:
>
>> I've been studying dovecot for replacing my company's current
system
>> and I got a little worried about an aspect of the dovecot's design.
>> I was surprised that dovecot doesn't use prefork for its mail
>> processes, forking a new processes for each new client connection.
>
> Login processes are preforked and they can also be configured to
> keep reusing existing processes. But yes, post-login imap/pop3
> processes aren't preforked because it would require a larger
> redesign of the master process. Which is actually what I have been
> planning on doing for v2.0 for a long time now.

Do you have pointer(s) to some mails / wiki pages talking about your
ideas of implementation of pre-forked process pool?


Regards,
Sebastien Tandel