Hi, Since few days I noticed very high load on my mailserver (Centos 6.6 64bit, 8 GB RAM, 2 x CPU 3.00GHz I am using Dovecot + Postfix + Roundcube + Nginx.
I have about 10000 users. Spool is on network attached storage (Coraid). File system is ext4 (mounted with noatime). Problem appears almost every morning (while load is normal during afternoon). I suspect that this can be related to some user that have so many messages in his mailbox. How can I troubleshoot this? Here some messages that I got in maillog: Warning: Maildir: Scanning /var/spool/pop/domains/xxxx.it/YYYYYYYYY/Maildir/new took 71 seconds (1 readdir()s, 1 rename()s to cur/) Warning: Maildir /var/spool/pop/domains/zzzz/WWWWWWWWWWWW/Maildir/.Trash: Synchronization took 74 seconds (5 new msgs, 0 flag change attempts, 0 expunge attempts) dovecot: imap([email protected]): Warning: Inotify instance limit for user 89 (UID postfix) exceeded, disabling. Increase /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances tail: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling: Too many open files My relevant dovecot conf: mail_location = maildir:/coraid-s2l2/domains namespace { type = private separator = . prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes } mail_uid = 89 mail_gid = 89 mail_fsync = never first_valid_uid = 89 first_valid_gid = 89 maildir_very_dirty_syncs = yes mbox_write_locks = fcntl thank you very much!
