On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Don Werve wrote:

>  I'm the qmail-Nazi at work, slowly converting the systems at my company
>  from legacy Sendmail installations over to qmail, primarily for security
>  reasons -- Sendmail is, in some small ways, easier to administrate, but
>  I don't like the buffer-overflow-du-jour problems that it is riddled with.
>
>  We're using Courier to provide IMAP and POP3 services to our users from
>  their individual ~/Maildir directories.  Only problem is, this setup
>  appears to work about 30% slower than our previous IMAP setup on an
>  ancient Pentium-II/350, running Linux and Cyrus IMAP (which is a PITA to
>  administrate compared to Courier, and doesn't natively support Maildirs).
>
>  Any pointers as to performance-enhancing tips?  The system is a Sun
>  Enterprise 3000, with 6x138MHz CPUs and a nice little hardware SCSI
>  RAID-5, running Solaris 8.

How are you mounting the file systems on the Slowaris box? Try mounting
them asynch and without access time stamping (noatime).

http://ultra.litpixel.com:84/articles/ftat/frameset.html

Remember that Sun's stuff will never be as fast as Linux, just much more
expensive and have nicer boxes ;-).

-- 
Juha Saarinen


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