Re: Slow lmtpd

2007-03-02 Thread Rob Mueller
After running iostat on my cyrus partition (both config and mail spool are kept on a SAN), I'm wondering if I should separate them out as well. This sounds related to the new metapartition and metapartition_files options that were added in v2.3.x. Does anyone have any recommendations or guidanc

Re: Slow lmtpd

2007-03-02 Thread Rob Mueller
see the output of the command "iostat -x sdb 5" (where 'sdb' is the device you have cyrus on) on your system. Even if you aren't saturating your Gigabit Ethernet link to the ATA-over-Ethernet storage, you may be exceeding the number I/O operations per second. I thought ATA-over-Ethernet had h

Re: Slow lmtpd

2007-03-02 Thread Rob Mueller
You can view the load average and process counts for these servers at: https://secure.onid.oregonstate.edu/cacti/graph_view.php?action=tree&tree_id=4 OT, but I found this interesting... I wonder when school starts and ends and when holidays are :) https://secure.onid.oregonstate.edu/c

Re: Slow lmtpd

2007-03-02 Thread Andre Nathan
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 17:07 -0800, Andrew Morgan wrote: > I doubt this is the problem you are seeing. It sounds to me like you may > be hitting the limits of your storage system. I would be fascinated to > see the output of the command "iostat -x sdb 5" (where 'sdb' is the device > you have cy

Re: Slow lmtpd

2007-03-02 Thread Andrew Morgan
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Andre Nathan wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 09:21 -0300, Andre Nathan wrote: Is there a cyrus version where specifying "duplicatesuppression: 0" actually prevents the duplicate check and thus the database locking issues I could upgrade to a newer version too, no problem. I d

Re: Slow lmtpd

2007-03-02 Thread Andre Nathan
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 12:59 -0800, Andrew Morgan wrote: > You'll lose the ability to effectively use vacation/out-of-office > messages. The vacation system uses deliver.db to determine which person > has already received the vacation message, to prevent multiple messages > from being sent. But

Re: Slow lmtpd

2007-03-02 Thread John Capo
Quoting Andre Nathan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 09:25 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > A few thousand lmtpd would be *way* too much because they all use the > > same I/O bottleneck (if you don't have partitions on different I/O > > paths). For a single I/O path i would recomm

Re: Slow lmtpd

2007-03-02 Thread Andrew Morgan
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Andre Nathan wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 16:41 -0600, Blake Hudson wrote: Actually it's still happening :( I read in the archives that the only way to actually avoid the locking in deliver.db is to also disable sieve, is that true? So, I'm willing to recompile cyrus and c

Re: Slow lmtpd

2007-03-02 Thread Andre Nathan
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 09:21 -0300, Andre Nathan wrote: > Is there a cyrus version where specifying "duplicatesuppression: 0" > actually prevents the duplicate check and thus the database locking > issues I could upgrade to a newer version too, no problem. I did that, and the lock contention proble

Re: Cyrus replication problems

2007-03-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hy all again! I get more information. In copying from my slave 2.3.8 the sync_client and sync_server files to the master in 2.3.7 I am now able to run sync_client -v -m user.toto2 on my master it works! I think there is an incompatibility between the two modules but i'm absolutely unable to read

Re: Cyrus replication problems

2007-03-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hy all again! I get more information. In copying from my slave 2.3.8 the sync_client and sync_server files to the master in 2.3.7 I am now able to run sync_client -v -m user.toto2 on my master it works! I think there is an incompatibility between the two modules but i'm absolutely unable to read

Re: Info-cyrus Digest, Vol 20, Issue 1

2007-03-02 Thread Jerome Nenert
I'm using Cyrus replication. After several tests, it seems that the single instance store facility is not replicated. I mean, the same message sent to several recipient is stored once on the master, but stored several times on the slave. Is there a special thing to do to activate single insta

Re: Slow lmtpd

2007-03-02 Thread Andre Nathan
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 16:41 -0600, Blake Hudson wrote: > > Actually it's still happening :( I read in the archives that the only > > way to actually avoid the locking in deliver.db is to also disable > > sieve, is that true? So, I'm willing to recompile cyrus and comment the calls to dupicate_chec

Re: single instance store and replication

2007-03-02 Thread Jerome Nenert
I'm using Cyrus replication. After several tests, it seems that the single instance store facility is not replicated. I mean, the same message sent to several recipient is stored once on the master, but stored several times on the slave. Is there a special thing to do to activate single insta