Tony, On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 03:55:13PM -0800, The Little Prince wrote: > > > > i'm not saying it's directly related to the maildir patch, i've had > > very good performance just untill 2 weeks ago. the amount of active > > users has increased a little, but the load increased dramatically out > > of the blue. > > > > Forgive me bart, it just totally went over my head that you and I had > talked a while ago when you had the rename() problem. > When you said NAS and nfs, the little light bulb went on above my head > :-)
don't worry about it :) > Those context switch/cs numbers under the vmstat seem awfully high to me. > I wish i had something good to tell you. > How many boxes you got now? didn't you have like 4 last time we talked > with 300k users? yes, 320k mailboxes, 4 servers. > Do any SW upgrades between the time it was going fine, and it started > crawling? That's probably a stupid question. nah, we didn't do any upgrades, the only difference we see is an increasing activity, but still, we should be able to handle it. > Might as well send the strace to me, and i'll check it out..not sure what > else to tell you. k, i'll send it to you. > btw, did i ever send you anything regarding that unpopable zero-filesize > problem? I don't remember. If not, i'm sorry, it must have slipped my mind > and i'll revisit it. nope, i thought you were on vacation or something like that :) so i thought of giving the mailinglist a shot. bart --
