Yes I did and it made some real differences. I enabled it on /usr as well
as /var and mounted /var with the noatime option. Doing not bad for the
amount of email it is pushing....thing is this I/O problem never use to be
an issue....but with growth constantly happening it has come to a hardware
based solution. What I have recommended to the company is a scsi card in
that machine with 2 scsi drives.....I will raid 0 then together with ccd
or venim and mount it as /var....turn existing /var into extra swap
space.....although i may thing of something else...as I don;t think it
needs a gig of swap... and that should fix the I/O issue incredibly.
Right now I have split up the load also between2 machines so that has
helped out incredibly....but systat -vmstat is still always showing 100%
disk usage so I will have to remedy the problem. Then I plan on moving all
mail back to that one machine and beating the shit right out of that
freebsd machine to see what freebsd can really handle. If anyone has some
nice newbie docs :) on ccd or venim would be greatly appreciated.
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 01:12:33 -0800
> From: Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Dan Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Andrew Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Andre Oppermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Silbersack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Charles Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jos Backus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)
>
> Dan Phoenix wrote:
> >
> > Yes maxusers stopped the dmesg errors....it seemed. Only thing I do not
> > like to much about postfix is that it only tries one MX record and then
> > does not try any others...."default"....yes there is still backlog with
> > #'s I gave you. Right now 8 min to get an email from sending...I have
> > another machine here still with qmail on it....going to try to evenly
> > distribute the mail between them and see how it goes. I cannot get you
> > stats from linux box because i wiped it out with freebsd....I will do
> > everything in my power to keep this box freebsd. Why qmail and linux was
> > handling the load I will never know now but regardless.....with 600 megs
> > being pushed a day with all that included backlog .....how many megs do
> > you think one ide drive can handle will be the biggest question to tackle
> > over next few days.
> >
>
>
> So, after that last discussion here, did you turn on soft updates?
>
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