[Dovecot] load increase after upgrade to 2.0.8

[Jose Celestino]

On Qua, 2010-12-15 at 21:06 +0100, Cor Bosman wrote:
> > 
> > Correct. Only Linux is affected.
> > 
> > Anyway, Postfix's design has been like this forever, so no one would have ever noticed context switch counts increasing. But changing this might make them notice that context switches are dropping.
> > 
> 
> Im a little surprised we havent seen more reports on dovecot as well. The impact was noticeable for us. 
> 

We had very little change on the load, no impact on client performance
or anything to alarm us, after all it was a major upgrade.

Definitely there's wasn't a 20x increase on the load as on the cs's.

I guess that would depend on the CPUs, caches, etc.

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