Re: [Dovecot] 1 week after full migration to 1.1v

2008-06-24 Thread Ed W
Raphael Bittencourt S. Costa wrote: And backup is a problem here, so an security filesystem is very important for not losing mail. I have been using rsync (rsnapback) for many of my backups, but it struggles when you point it at hundreds of thousands of files in a directory. I have seen a n

Re: [Dovecot] 1 week after full migration to 1.1v

2008-06-24 Thread Raphael Bittencourt S. Costa
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 15:20 +0100, Ed W wrote: > Hi > > Sounds like you know what you are doing! > No, sounds like I'm thinking what I'm doing. :-D I really need more information to get more from the structure. > >> - can I assume you have given some thought to > >> tuning your file system w

Re: [Dovecot] 1 week after full migration to 1.1v

2008-06-24 Thread Ed W
Hi Sounds like you know what you are doing! - can I assume you have given some thought to tuning your file system which handles the spool files? The server uses xfs for maildir partition and so on, it uses noatime,nodiratime,nobarrier,logbufs=8. I guess you have read around a little

Re: [Dovecot] 1 week after full migration to 1.1v

2008-06-24 Thread Raphael Bittencourt S. Costa
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 11:44 +0100, Ed W wrote: > Raphael Bittencourt S. Costa wrote: > > Ehlo all, > > > > I've been working on a migration of about 240K users from one server > > with qmail, courier imap, maildrop and ldap to postfix, dovecot, lda > > +sieve. Before the migration the server and t

Re: [Dovecot] 1 week after full migration to 1.1v

2008-06-24 Thread Ed W
Raphael Bittencourt S. Costa wrote: Ehlo all, I've been working on a migration of about 240K users from one server with qmail, courier imap, maildrop and ldap to postfix, dovecot, lda +sieve. Before the migration the server and the storage were always on high load. It almost doesn't seem

Re: [Dovecot] 1 week after full migration to 1.1v

2008-06-23 Thread Raphael Bittencourt S. Costa
4G, 2x146SAS and the storage is Hitachi AMS 500, with 41x146G Fiber 15K. > - Joe > > - Original Message - > From: "Raphael Bittencourt S. Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "dovecot" > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 10:36 PM > Subject: [Dovecot]

Re: [Dovecot] 1 week after full migration to 1.1v

2008-06-23 Thread Joe Wong
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "dovecot" Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 10:36 PM Subject: [Dovecot] 1 week after full migration to 1.1v Ehlo all, I've been working on a migration of about 240K users from one server with qmail, courier imap, maildrop and ldap to postfix, dovecot, l

[Dovecot] 1 week after full migration to 1.1v

2008-06-23 Thread Raphael Bittencourt S. Costa
Ehlo all, I've been working on a migration of about 240K users from one server with qmail, courier imap, maildrop and ldap to postfix, dovecot, lda +sieve. Before the migration the server and the storage were always on high load. Before migration: Storage IOPs = 4600 Read average = 2800 Wri