Hello all. We start to use Dovecot at our email production but it runs not such fast as we expect. We use Dell 2950 with 4GbRAM at FreeBSD-7.0-p9 - load avarage never upper a 0.5 We have about 500 clients most of it use Outlook 2007 via IMAP. We run in this problems: 1) Sync of imap folder is really slow(I think it is Outlook problem) 2) Time after time we got Sync error from outlook 3) Time after time our monitoring system says what IMAP port not answer in 10 sec. In real life it start to answer in 15-20 sec what is not really good - client thinks what server don`t work. If I restart dovecot - it start to answer in 1-3 sec. I think problem in my conf, may be I need tune it? *dovecot -n don`t give full conf so i use this:* mail# grep -v '#' /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf | egrep -v '^$' base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ protocols = imap imaps pop3 pop3s managesieve listen = * disable_plaintext_auth = yes shutdown_clients = yes log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/dovecot.log log_timestamp = "%b %d %H:%M:%S " syslog_facility = mail ssl_disable = no ssl_cert_file = /usr/local/etc/certs/fxclub_org.crt ssl_key_file = /usr/local/etc/certs/fxclub_org.key ssl_ca_file = /usr/local/etc/certs/GlobalSignCA.crt ssl_verify_client_cert = no ssl_parameters_regenerate = 168 ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2 verbose_ssl = no login_dir = /var/run/dovecot/login login_user = dovecot login_process_size = 64 login_process_per_connection = yes login_processes_count = 10 login_max_processes_count = 128 login_greeting = Dovecot ready. login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l %c login_log_format = %$: %s mail_location = maildir:/var/spool/dovecot/domains/%d/%n/ mail_uid = dmail mail_gid = dmail mail_privileged_group = mail mail_full_filesystem_access = no mail_debug = no mail_log_prefix = "%Us(%u): " mail_log_max_lines_per_sec = 10 mmap_disable = no dotlock_use_excl = yes fsync_disable = no mail_nfs_storage = no mail_nfs_index = no lock_method = fcntl mail_drop_priv_before_exec = no verbose_proctitle = yes first_valid_uid = 500 first_valid_gid = 0 max_mail_processes = 512 mail_process_size = 256 mail_max_keyword_length = 50 mail_cache_min_mail_count = 0 mailbox_idle_check_interval = 30 mail_save_crlf = no maildir_stat_dirs = no maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes maildir_copy_preserve_filename = no mbox_read_locks = fcntl mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl mbox_lock_timeout = 300 mbox_dotlock_change_timeout = 120 mbox_min_index_size = 0 protocol imap { login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login mail_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap imap_max_line_length = 65536 mail_max_userip_connections = 10 mail_plugins = quota imap_quota autocreate mail_plugin_dir = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap login_greeting_capability = yes imap_logout_format = bytes=%i/%o imap_client_workarounds = delay-newmail tb-extra-mailbox-sep } protocol pop3 { login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login mail_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3 pop3_enable_last = no pop3_lock_session = no pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv pop3_logout_format = top=%t/%p, retr=%r/%b, del=%d/%m, size=%s mail_max_userip_connections = 3 mail_plugins = quota mail_plugin_dir = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3 pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh } protocol lda { postmaster_address = postmaster at fxclub.org hostname = mail.fxclub.org mail_plugins = cmusieve quota mail_plugin_dir = /usr/local/lib/dovecot/lda quota_full_tempfail = yes deliver_log_format = msgid=%m: %$ log_path = /var/log/dovecot/deliver.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot/deliver.log sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail rejection_reason = Your message to <%t> was automatically rejected:%n%r auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master sieve_global_path = /var/spool/dovecot/global.sieve } protocol managesieve { listen = *:2000 login_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve-login mail_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/managesieve managesieve_max_line_length = 65536 sieve_storage = % sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve mail_location managesieve_implementation_string = dovecot } auth_executable = /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-auth auth_process_size = 256 auth_cache_size = 0 auth_cache_ttl = 3600 auth_cache_negative_ttl = 3600 auth_username_chars = abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ01234567890.-_@ auth_username_format = %Lu auth_verbose = yes auth_debug = no auth_debug_passwords = no auth_worker_max_count = 100 auth_failure_delay = 2 auth default { mechanisms = plain login passdb ldap { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } userdb ldap { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot-ldap.conf } user = dovecot-auth count = 1 ssl_require_client_cert = no socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master mode = 0600 user = dmail } client { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client mode = 0660 user = exim } } } dict { } plugin { quota = maildir quota_rule = *:storage=1024M quota_rule2 = Trash:storage=1256M quota_rule3 = SPAM:ignore quota_warning = storage=95%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 95 quota_warning2 = storage=80%% /usr/local/bin/quota-warning.sh 80 autocreate = Trash autocreate2 = Sent autocreate3 = Spam autosubscribe = Trash autosubscribe2 = Sent autosubscribe3 = Spam } -- Best regards, Proskurin Kirill
On 1/20/2009 4:10 AM, Proskurin Kirill wrote:> We use Dell 2950 with 4GbRAM at FreeBSD-7.0-p9 - load avarage never > upper a 0.5You don't give dovecot version... don't you think that might be important?> We have about 500 clients most of it use Outlook 2007 via IMAP. > > We run in this problems: > 1) Sync of imap folder is really slow(I think it is Outlook problem)Yes, Outlook is a notoriously bad IMAP client, but 2007 is supposed to be a bit better behaved than previous versions...> *dovecot -n don`t give full conf so i use this:*If dovecot -n doesn't give expected results, that may be a clue... doevecot -n gives the config that the running version of dovecot is actually USING - so if it contradcits what you expect, then you are most likely editing the wrong config file. Please provide FULL dovecot -n output always, then copy/paste the stuff that isn't included (like the contents of dovecot-sql.conf if using it, etc)... -- Best regards, Charles
Steffen Kaiser ?????:> > Does these problems occure all the time, e.g. if you restart the > Dovecot demon and there are just a bunch of users on it.After restart - it work for some time, but it is just because no all connect to it again.> > Do you have a file descriptor limit for the demon process?System limit? 512mb. It not run on this.> > Do you have some "security" stuff running, a BSD-equivalent of SELinux > or AppArmour?Nope. As I sad before - i just increase *all* thing what can be a bottleneck twice. And seems to "fix" it. But it makes me think what it is real will be good if dovecot can say in debuging loging what he reach some limits from his config. It will make finding a bottleneck such easy.. heh. I just what to know - were was a problem, but seam to i don`t have any tool for this. Any way - dovecot is a great and i glad what i migrate from a Cyrus. ;-) -- Best regards, Proskurin Kirill
Proskurin Kirill wrote:> Steffen Kaiser ?????: >> >> Does these problems occure all the time, e.g. if you restart the >> Dovecot demon and there are just a bunch of users on it. > After restart - it work for some time, but it is just because no all > connect to it again. >> >> Do you have a file descriptor limit for the demon process? > System limit? 512mb. It not run on this. >> >> Do you have some "security" stuff running, a BSD-equivalent of SELinux >> or AppArmour? > Nope. > > As I sad before - i just increase *all* thing what can be a bottleneck > twice. And seems to "fix" it. > But it makes me think what it is real will be good if dovecot can say in > debuging loging what he reach some limits from his config. > It will make finding a bottleneck such easy.. heh. I just what to know - > were was a problem, but seam to i don`t have any tool for this.ps ax | grep imap-login | wc -l ~Seth