[Dovecot] deliver command

[AMP Admin]

I put nice in there but I'm still getting this from top...


  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
13594 vmail     26  10  3816 2392 1088 D 14.6  0.1   0:00.54 deliver
13585 vmail     26  10 17212 7756 1144 D 10.9  0.2   0:00.60 deliver
13560 vmail     26  10  3824 2488 1144 D  9.3  0.1   0:00.88 deliver
13584 vmail     26  10 17212 7756 1144 R  8.3  0.2   0:00.65 deliver
13601 vmail     26  10  3816 2392 1088 D  8.3  0.1   0:00.25 deliver
13580 vmail     26  10  3824 2460 1124 D  7.0  0.1   0:00.50 deliver
13587 vmail     26  10  3824 2464 1124 D  6.6  0.1   0:00.49 deliver
13574 vmail     26  10 17212 7756 1144 D  5.0  0.2   0:00.77 deliver
13586 vmail     26  10  3816 2396 1088 D  5.0  0.1   0:00.42 deliver
13592 vmail     26  10  3824 2460 1124 D  5.0  0.1   0:00.48 deliver
13595 vmail     26  10  3816 2392 1084 D  4.6  0.1   0:00.17 deliver
13559 vmail     26  10  3816 2388 1084 R  3.3  0.1   0:00.65 deliver
13571 vmail     26  10  3824 2472 1136 D  3.3  0.1   0:00.66 deliver
11483 postfix   15   0 17060  10m 1620 D  3.0  0.3   0:04.08 qmgr
13558 vmail     26  10  3824 2484 1144 D  3.0  0.1   0:00.91 deliver
13575 vmail     26  10  3824 2476 1136 D  2.7  0.1   0:00.63 deliver
13593 vmail     26  10  3816 2396 1084 D  2.3  0.1   0:00.11 deliver


-----Original Message-----
From: dovecot-bounces+admin=ampprod.com at dovecot.org
[mailto:dovecot-bounces+admin=ampprod.com at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of Timo
Sirainen
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 2:05 PM
To: Dovecot Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] deliver command

Shutting down Dovecot doesn't shut down deliver, since it's called by
Postfix.

On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 13:42 -0500, AMP Admin wrote:
> What if I turn off dovecot just while the newsletter is going out?  it 
> uses postfix to send so it shouldn't hurt anything, right?
> 
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> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: dovecot-bounces+admin=ampprod.com at dovecot.org
> [mailto:dovecot-bounces+admin=ampprod.com at dovecot.org] On Behalf Of 
> Timo Sirainen
> Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 12:50 PM
> To: Dovecot Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Dovecot] deliver command
> 
> On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 12:41 -0500, AMP Admin wrote:
> > It seems deliver is taking up a lot of cpu.
> 
> It probably shouldn't be. See what it's doing with e.g. strace?
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/ProcessTracing
> 
> Also show your dovecot -n output.
> 
> > Is there a way to throttle just the delivery command? 
> 
> Run "nice deliver" instead?
> 
>