> That looks correct. So either something's changed in Dovecot since I > last tested it with NFS, or something's changed in Linux kernel. Or > there's something else weird going on. > > I don't really have any good suggestions for solutions and I don't > really have time to debug NFS problems right now.. Or you could of > course always try if disabling NFS attribute cache fixes things, but > that'll most likely also make your performance a lot worse.
Fwiw I just upgraded one of our servers from 1.1.2 to 1.1.4 (32-bit, centos5.2) and cant see any changes in our nfs access patterns. We use nfs3 though. Mark