Re: [Dovecot] Disk busy issues

2009-12-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Dec 4, 2009, at 8:58 AM, Michael Durket wrote: > I'm wondering if the problem here is that all the mailboxes for these users > are in mbox > format and that format just poses too much of a burden on Dovecot. If you haven't yet set mbox_very_dirty_syncs=yes, doing it should help. > I personal

Re: [Dovecot] Disk busy issues

2009-12-04 Thread Charles Marcus
On 12/4/2009, Michael Durket (dur...@highwire.stanford.edu) wrote: > Would people > on this forum (who probably deal with larger numbers of users and mailboxes > than my > system does) recommend that I switch the mailboxes over to Maildir format to > alleviate > the disk busy problems? Are there

[Dovecot] Disk busy issues

2009-12-04 Thread Michael Durket
I have a system with currently 121 mail accounts running Dovecot 1.1.20 on Redhat AS4. The computer has 8 gigabytes of memory, 2 dual core AMD Opteron processors and is attached via fiber channel connections to 345 gigabytes of space for the home directories. The only purpose for this machi