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Hi All, I have compared Dovecot performance to Courier and it appears that as a POP3 server Dovecot is slower in 2 times but as an IMAP server it is faster in 1.5 times. The same node (16CPUs), testing time is 30 min, please see results and dovecot configs attached. Benchmark software is MStone used by Sendmail Inc so is is quite reliable. I do not see anything else to tweak in Dovecot to increase POP3 performance. Can we all have some tips to improve it please ? This is how my Doveco...

I am confused with a problem: I have a blade with 64 physical CPUs and 64G physical RAM, and defined only one VM with 1 CPU and 40G RAM. For the first time I started the VM, it just took 3s, But for the second starting it took 30s. After studied it by printing log, I have located a place in the hypervisor where cost too much time, occupied 98% of the whole starting time. xen/common/page_alloc.c