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Hello , I have an active passive dovecot setup with glusterfs as a mail storage and using maildirs, we used to have a problem when users with large mailboxes sync their folders. This caused the load average to increase in the server , after a while we have enabled the very_dirty_sync option in dovecot , things got better and the problem disappeared but we need to know if there is any thing else that we need to do or know about the very_dirty_sync option that may cause future problems . Thanks in advance -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed......

very_dirty_syncs helped a lot - the problems still happen but only about every 30 minutes. It seems this flag prevents re-indexing on whatever was constantly inducing it (with every client-check, if there was a change written to the directory, is my best guess watching the logs go). I still get all the same symp...

...ge -------- Subject: Re: Dovecot 2.2.16: disappearing messages, mismatched summaries, duplicated messages, excessive full re-downloads From: David Gessel <gessel at blackrosetech.com> To: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> Date: Thu Apr 23 2015 18:39:02 GMT+0400 (Arabian Standard Time) > very_dirty_syncs helped a lot - the problems still happen but only about every 30 minutes. It seems this flag prevents re-indexing on whatever was constantly inducing it (with every client-check, if there was a change written to the directory, is my best guess watching the logs go). > > I still get all the...

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Dovecot 2.2.16: disappearing messages, mismatched summaries, duplicated messages, excessive full re-downloads From: Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> To: David Gessel <gessel at blackrosetech.com> Date: Sat Apr 18 2015 15:48:28 GMT+0300 (Arabic Standard Time) > No. My best guess is that (your) ZFS+FreeBSD is simply not behaving the way