> > What would be the best way to 'throttle' dovecot/imap
processes of specific users?
> >
>
> Can you please elaborate a bit how you would like to ?throttle? the
processes? Give it less CPU time?
>
> That you can probably achieve by returning
service/imap/executable="/usr/bin/nice -n 10
/usr/libexec/dovecot/imap"
> from users for the throttled users.
>
Thanks Sami, I was experimenting with some external script that applied cpulimit
and ionice to processes. But this suggestion is of course much nicer.