On 25 May 2012, at 20:00, Root Kev <[email protected]> wrote:
> So the best way to would be to remove it that part completely, or should it
> be stored somewhere on disk?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Kevin
yes, best is to remove ":INDEX=MEMORY" part, and it will store indexes in your
INBOX path, which is fine.
If you want to put it in a different path, you can have something like
INDEX=/path/to/indexes/%u
Regards,
Thierry
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Having a system with a third of our users on POP3 (2300000 of them), no
> trouble with dovecot (v2.1.5, on CentOS 5).
> But one thing surprises me in your config, the INDEX=MEMORY in the location
> parameter. That means that for each POP3 connection, dovecot has to read each
> and every mails to create the index in memory. That might be why the machine
> becomes unresponsive.
> Unless you have a specific reason to use memory index (and I would be curious
> to know about it), I would suggest to remove this and keep standard file
> indexes, and your performances should improve a lot.
>
> Regards,
>
> Thierry
>
>
