Thanks Eric for your tips:

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Eric Shubert <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> The following should reduce the overall i/o on your QMT:
> .) ext3/4 filesystem tweaks: dirindex, noatime
>

I was missing noatime. If someone else wonders if you can remount a live
LVM root partition without reboot, the answer is "yes you can": this is how
I did it:

mount -o remount,defaults,noatime /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /



> .) put /var/qmail/simscan (scanning work area) on tmpfs.


 Nice idea! I already have mounted (I guess this is CentoOS default):

tmpfs                 1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /dev/shm

I could create a subdir there for simscan and then bind mount it, yes?

As I need to create a simscan dir there everytime I reboot the machine, I'm
wondering where should I create the dir:
would /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit be the right place?

And now I started thinking, would it be a good idea to put qmail logs there
as well? The qmail startup/stop script could be made to copy the logs in a
"safe storage dir". I would loose the logs if the server crashes, but I do
not see that happening very often :)

Regards,
Peter

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