> > What would be the best way to 'throttle' dovecot/imap processes of specific > > users? > > > > Can you please elaborate a bit how you would like to ‘throttle’ the > processes? Give it less CPU time? > > That you can probably achieve by returning > service/imap/executable="/usr/bin/nice -n 10 /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap" > from users for the throttled users. >
Thanks Sami, I was experimenting with some external script that applied cpulimit and ionice to processes. But this suggestion is of course much nicer.
