Re: [Dovecot] RFC: grouped (f)sync

2011-01-06 Thread Attila Nagy
On 01/05/2011 11:38 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote: On 6.1.2011, at 0.27, Attila Nagy wrote: With this, 10 syncs would happen in every second from Dovecot LDA processes, meaning if a client connects in t=0 it will immediately got the response 250, if a client connects in t=0.05, it will get the res

Re: [Dovecot] RFC: grouped (f)sync

2011-01-05 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 6.1.2011, at 0.27, Attila Nagy wrote: > With this, 10 syncs would happen in every second from Dovecot LDA processes, > meaning if a client connects in t=0 it will immediately got the response 250, > if a client connects in t=0.05, it will get the response in 50 ms (in an > ideal world, where

[Dovecot] RFC: grouped (f)sync

2011-01-05 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, Currently Dovecot (and any other application, which cares about e-mail delivery) does at least one fsync per mail delivery. Given that hard disk drives have a very limited IOPS, this effectively limits the maximum mail delivery performance to a very low value, under utilizing the avai