Re: [Dovecot] netapp/maildir/dovecot performance

2007-03-26 Thread bofh list
On 3/25/07, Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 14:19 -0400, bofh list wrote: > We are seeing some poor performance recently that is focused around > users with large mailboxes (100,000 message /INBOX, 80,000 message > subfolders, etc). > > The performance problem manif

Re: [Dovecot] netapp/maildir/dovecot performance

2007-03-25 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 14:19 -0400, bofh list wrote: > We are seeing some poor performance recently that is focused around > users with large mailboxes (100,000 message /INBOX, 80,000 message > subfolders, etc). > > The performance problem manifests as very high system% utilization - > basically io

Re: [Dovecot] netapp/maildir/dovecot performance

2007-03-22 Thread Tom Bombadil
We used to have RHEL4 talking NFS to bluearc (instead of netapp). Switching to solaris 10 improved performance about 10 fold. The app was postgres though, not dovecot. Cheers bofh list wrote: > On 3/22/07, Tom Bombadil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > >> What operating system are you using

Re: [Dovecot] netapp/maildir/dovecot performance

2007-03-22 Thread bofh list
On 3/22/07, Tom Bombadil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... What operating system are you using? Performance over NFS is tremendously different. And each OS can be tweaked differently. You should try noatime (noxattr on solaris) regardless. RHEL4u3 64-bit. I will try noatime. Thanks

Re: [Dovecot] netapp/maildir/dovecot performance

2007-03-22 Thread Tom Bombadil
bofh list wrote: > We are seeing some poor performance recently that is focused around > users with large mailboxes (100,000 message /INBOX, 80,000 message > subfolders, etc). > > The performance problem manifests as very high system% utilization - > basically iowait for NFS. > > There are two

[Dovecot] netapp/maildir/dovecot performance

2007-03-22 Thread bofh list
We are seeing some poor performance recently that is focused around users with large mailboxes (100,000 message /INBOX, 80,000 message subfolders, etc). The performance problem manifests as very high system% utilization - basically iowait for NFS. There are two imap servers with plenty of horsep