On 13 Aug 2014, at 10:24, Florent Bautista <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a little problem with Dovecot 2.1.17 and MailDir accounts. > > I was using a shared file system (MooseFS), and all was pretty stable. > > Now I'm switching to CephFS, and Dovecot LMTP have problem to deliver mails. > > Very often, on large accounts, LMTP processes are running for a few hours > before delivering the message. > > When I strace it, I can see that they are reading (open and stat > operations) ALL the messages of the account. You didn't provide doveconf -n output, but I'm guessing the problem is Maildir++ quota. Switch to dict-file quota and the problems should go away. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Quota/Dict
