Re: [Dovecot] ext3/ext4 performance issue

2009-05-19 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 15 May 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote: on my production system, I've scanned 97559 dirs in total, including 'tmp's, Maildir & homedirs. Control and Indexes are located elsewhere. There a total of 97406, 5238 of them use more than one block, hen

Re: [Dovecot] ext3/ext4 performance issue

2009-05-18 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-18-2009 8:46 AM Matthijs Kooijman spake the following: > Hi Scott, > >> One could always run the mailstore on LVM and then you could snapshot the >> mount and then fsck it while still technically in use. It would probably slow >> down the filesystem, but it is still live. > Uhm, and then you

Re: [Dovecot] ext3/ext4 performance issue

2009-05-18 Thread Seth Mattinen
Matthijs Kooijman wrote: > Hi Scott, > >> One could always run the mailstore on LVM and then you could snapshot the >> mount and then fsck it while still technically in use. It would probably slow >> down the filesystem, but it is still live. > Uhm, and then you have a nice and fsck'd snapshot, bu

Re: [Dovecot] ext3/ext4 performance issue

2009-05-18 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Hi Scott, > One could always run the mailstore on LVM and then you could snapshot the > mount and then fsck it while still technically in use. It would probably slow > down the filesystem, but it is still live. Uhm, and then you have a nice and fsck'd snapshot, but your live filesystem will still

Re: [Dovecot] ext3/ext4 performance issue

2009-05-15 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 17:13 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > I could run stats here, with 12.000 users to see what the average size > > is... > > It would be interesting to have some kind of statistics for cur/ > directories and get divided by cur> and then see how many users have values that are

Re: [Dovecot] ext3/ext4 performance issue

2009-05-15 Thread Scott Silva
on 5-15-2009 11:59 AM Timo Sirainen spake the following: > Wonder if anyone else has actually noticed this and has some kind of > statistics? > > http://marc.info/?t=12423400331&r=1&w=2 > One could always run the mailstore on LVM and then you could snapshot the mount and then fsck it while st

Re: [Dovecot] ext3/ext4 performance issue

2009-05-15 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 22:58 +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Timo Sirainen : > > Wonder if anyone else has actually noticed this and has some kind of > > statistics? > > > > http://marc.info/?t=12423400331&r=1&w=2 > > I could run stats here, with 12.000 users to see what the average size >

Re: [Dovecot] ext3/ext4 performance issue

2009-05-15 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Timo Sirainen : > Wonder if anyone else has actually noticed this and has some kind of > statistics? > > http://marc.info/?t=12423400331&r=1&w=2 I could run stats here, with 12.000 users to see what the average size is... -- Ralf Hildebrandt Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und Wartung