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nfs: Recommend actimeo=60 more strongly
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sirainen committed Aug 9, 2023
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NFS mount options
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* ``actimeo``: This or the more specific settings can be used to control NFS
caching. Increasing this can reduce NFS traffic. It should be at least
60 seconds (``actimeo=60``).

* ``nordirplus``: Disable readdirplus operations, which aren't needed by
Dovecot. They can also slow down some NFS servers.

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This can still increase the likelihood of index corruption (which can lose
message flags), but locking won't prevent index corruption completely anyway.

* ``actimeo``: This or the more specific settings can be used to control NFS
caching. The defaults are likely good enough, but you can try to increase
the caching time to reduce NFS traffic (e.g. ``actimeo=60``).

Optimizations
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