In Progress CPANEL-43323 - doveadm priority (nice)

[imorandin]

Hi,

When a client cleans a large email account, the doveadm expunge process consumes a lot of resources (specially CPU):



Is there any way to reduce the priority (nice) of this process?
I've tried these Tweak settings with no luck (nice stays at 0):



Thanks,

Ignacio

 

[cPRex]

Hey there! Just for confirmation, is this process initiated from the cPanel >> Email Disk Usage page?

 

[imorandin]

Hi Mr. Rex!
Yes, that's right.

 

[cPRex]

I'll do some testing with this and get back with you!

 

[cPRex]

I confirmed this behavior on my end and created case CPANEL-43323 with our developers so they can look into this. I'll be sure to post any updates I get!

 

[imorandin]

Thank you very much Mr. Dinosaur!

 

[cPRex]

Sure thing!

 

[imorandin]

Hi,

Any news about this problem?
Another one today:



Thanks,
Ignacio

 

[cPRex]

I did reach out to the team today, and they are aware of the issue but work hasn't started just yet. It would seem that the Tweak Settings values only apply to actions inside the File Manager, so there is definitely work to be done to clarify things in this area.

I they provide me with this command that will help check the I/O nice value of the doveadm processes, so this could be worthwhile to check on your system as you likely won't get accurate data directly from "top"

ps auxww|perl -ne '/[d]oveadm/ or next; @_ = split /\s+/; printf("I/O priority for pid %d: %s%s-------\n", $_[1], scalar(`ionice -p $_[1]`), $_)'