This documentation is for Dovecot v1.x, see wiki2 for v2.x documentation.

Dovecot performance tuning

Disk I/O optimization

Usually heavily loaded IMAP and POP3 servers don't use much CPU, but they use all the disk I/O they can get. So reducing disk I/O is probably the most useful optimization you can do.

CPU usage optimization

Memory usage optimization

There aren't many settings which affect Dovecot's memory usage. About the only such settings are auth_cache_size and LoginProcess settings. In general Dovecot uses as much memory as it needs, which is usually quite little.

Note that these settings do not directly affect the memory usage:

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