QoS on Cyrus traffic

[Philip A. Prindeville]

On 01/08/2010 12:48 PM, Ken Murchison wrote:
> Philip A. Prindeville wrote:
>> On 01/08/2010 12:06 PM, Ken Murchison wrote:
>>> Can we get some opinions on the feature request below:
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=3184
>>>
>>> I'm pretty much convinced that such a feature is worth adding, the only question is where should it be configured: imapd.conf or cyrus.conf ?
>>>
>>
>> Well, since pop3 and lmtp can probably also benefit from it, I say cyrus.conf... only problem is I'm not as competent at adding options to cyrus (globally) as to imapd.
> 
> It can also be a per-service option if its in imapd.conf by prepending the option with the service name, e.g.: myimapd_qosmarking

I'm not sure there's much value-add in allowing POP3 and IMAP to run at different priorities (other than to discourage people from using POP3 by offering truly bad service).

The granularity of most sites' QoS setting is that all email-related traffic (POP3, IMAP, SMTP, and LMTP) gets dumped in the same bucket.

Only LDAP, which requires slightly more spritely interactivity for character-by-character address completions, needs to be provisioned at a higher priority.

Since it's going to be new to most people, I say we allow a single knob, and as people get used to having it, if there's enough clamor for greater fine-tuning, we revisit it.

That work for you?

-Philip