Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-12-04 Thread Christopher Chan
ext3 again takes the slowest performing title overall as expected...in fact it appears not much as changed fs vs fs wise since Bruce Guenter's tests. But I am surprised at the overall performance regressions in comparison to 2.6.5/6 kernels with regards to deliveries vs amount of writers.

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-12-04 Thread Christopher Chan
Heitor A.M. Cardozo wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Heitor A. M. Cardozo wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Heitor A. M. Cardozo wrote: Hi, A draft with results of my benchmark based on fsbench is available in http://www.htiweb.inf.br/benchmark/fsbench.htm. The methodology and the conclusion

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-12-04 Thread Benjamin Franz
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Christopher Chan wrote: ext3 again takes the slowest performing title overall as expected...in fact it appears not much as changed fs vs fs wise since Bruce Guenter's tests. But I am surprised at the overall performance regressions in comparison to 2.6.5/6 kernels with

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-12-04 Thread Christopher Chan
that last sentence should have been 'cannot beat' I can believe it. Linux SW RAID is _VERY_ fast. The advantage of 3ware HW RAID is in its convienence and robustness when Bad Things (tm) happen, not its performance, in my experience. I have used both 3ware, linux software raid and others.

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-12-04 Thread Heitor A.M. Cardozo
Christopher Chan wrote: ext3 again takes the slowest performing title overall as expected...in fact it appears not much as changed fs vs fs wise since Bruce Guenter's tests. I agree but the values are more acceptable in comparision with others filesystems. On Bruce tests it shows a very bad

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-12-04 Thread Christopher Chan
Heitor A.M. Cardozo wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: ext3 again takes the slowest performing title overall as expected...in fact it appears not much as changed fs vs fs wise since Bruce Guenter's tests. I agree but the values are more acceptable in comparision with others filesystems. On

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-12-04 Thread Heitor A.M. Cardozo
Mensagem original Assunto: Re:[CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir De: Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Data: terça-feira, 04 de dezembro de 2007 12:06:43 Heitor A.M. Cardozo wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: ext3 again takes

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-12-04 Thread Christopher Chan
Here they are: The reader/writer times are in milliseconds and they are the amount of time needed to read/write one message. jfs filesystem results: Reader time Writer time Deliveries per second No. of writers: one 0.058 6.339 157.754

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-12-04 Thread Christopher Chan
ext3 again takes the slowest performing title overall as expected...in fact it appears not much as changed fs vs fs wise since Bruce Guenter's tests. I agree but the values are more acceptable in comparision with others filesystems. On Bruce tests it shows a very bad performance for

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-12-03 Thread Heitor A.M. Cardozo
Christopher Chan wrote: Heitor A. M. Cardozo wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Heitor A. M. Cardozo wrote: Hi, A draft with results of my benchmark based on fsbench is available in http://www.htiweb.inf.br/benchmark/fsbench.htm. The methodology and the conclusion i will publish later,

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-12-02 Thread Christopher Chan
Heitor A. M. Cardozo wrote: Hi, A draft with results of my benchmark based on fsbench is available in http://www.htiweb.inf.br/benchmark/fsbench.htm. The methodology and the conclusion i will publish later, however, it shows that the XFS obtained better performance and EXT3 had results that

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-12-02 Thread Heitor A. M. Cardozo
Christopher Chan wrote: Heitor A. M. Cardozo wrote: Hi, A draft with results of my benchmark based on fsbench is available in http://www.htiweb.inf.br/benchmark/fsbench.htm. The methodology and the conclusion i will publish later, however, it shows that the XFS obtained better performance

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-12-02 Thread Christopher Chan
Heitor A. M. Cardozo wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Heitor A. M. Cardozo wrote: Hi, A draft with results of my benchmark based on fsbench is available in http://www.htiweb.inf.br/benchmark/fsbench.htm. The methodology and the conclusion i will publish later, however, it shows that the XFS

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-30 Thread Heitor A. M. Cardozo
Hi, A draft with results of my benchmark based on fsbench is available in http://www.htiweb.inf.br/benchmark/fsbench.htm. The methodology and the conclusion i will publish later, however, it shows that the XFS obtained better performance and EXT3 had results that can now compete in this

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-29 Thread Rodrigo Barbosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:51:25AM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: We haven't had any notable performance problems using this at a regional ISP customer's site with about 10,000 e-mail users and several machines in a cluster delivering mail to Maildir

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-29 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:51:25AM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: We haven't had any notable performance problems using this at a regional ISP customer's site with about 10,000 e-mail users and several machines in a cluster delivering mail to Maildir

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-29 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007, Christopher Chan wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2007, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:51:25AM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: We haven't had any notable performance problems using this at a regional ISP customer's site with about 10,000 e-mail users

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-29 Thread Christopher Chan
Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2007, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:51:25AM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: We haven't had any notable performance problems using this at a regional ISP customer's site with about 10,000 e-mail users and several machines in a cluster

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-29 Thread Christopher Chan
Very. We have a single Linux box facing the Internet which runs everything through postfix, amavisd, and clamav to weed out the phishing and worms that attack the Microsoft virus, Windows, then hands off messages that pass to the internal cluster using round-robin DNS as the poor-mans load

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-28 Thread Heitor A.M. Cardozo
Christopher Chan wrote: Heitor Augusto M Cardozo wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Heitor Augusto M Cardozo wrote: Hi all, In last year, i had made some research and benchmarks based on CentOS 4 to know which filesystem is better for Maildir: ReiserFS, XFS or EXT3. My conclusion was as

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-28 Thread Christopher Chan
What does fsbench say? It has the best writing performance too?!? No, according to the fsbench results, ReiserFS wins on Read Performance, but XFS is, approximately, four times more faster on write. I said that the ReiserFS have the best performance based on my read/write server statics,

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-28 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007, Christopher Chan wrote: What does fsbench say? It has the best writing performance too?!? No, according to the fsbench results, ReiserFS wins on Read Performance, but XFS is, approximately, four times more faster on write. I said that the ReiserFS have the best

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-28 Thread Christopher Chan
Bill Campbell wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007, Christopher Chan wrote: What does fsbench say? It has the best writing performance too?!? No, according to the fsbench results, ReiserFS wins on Read Performance, but XFS is, approximately, four times more faster on write. I said that the ReiserFS

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Heitor Augusto M Cardozo napsal(a): Yes, the BBU is installed and write_cache is enable. I will test JFS to compare. Could you share the results then? Thanks, David ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-27 Thread Rodrigo Barbosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:28:58AM -0200, Heitor Augusto M Cardozo wrote: - EXT3: reliable but very slow to read many small files. - ReiserFS: best performance but unreliable and bad recovery tools. - XFS: My choice, good performance and

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-27 Thread Christopher Chan
Heitor Augusto M Cardozo wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: Heitor Augusto M Cardozo wrote: Hi all, In last year, i had made some research and benchmarks based on CentOS 4 to know which filesystem is better for Maildir: ReiserFS, XFS or EXT3. My conclusion was as follows: - EXT3: reliable

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-27 Thread Christopher Chan
On CentOS 5.0, a had the same benchmarks and now, EXT3 and XFS seems to had better or equivalent performance on Read and Create Random files. One of this tests, using bonnie++, show this: # bonnie++ -d /mnt/sdc1/testfile -s 8192 -m `hostname` -n 50:15:5000:1000 bonnie++? Not

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-26 Thread Joshua Gimer
We use ext3 for maildir. I have not had any issues to date. This is also on fibre SAN drives, not ATA. On Nov 26, 2007, at 12:22 PM, Heitor Augusto M Cardozo wrote: Hi all, In last year, i had made some research and benchmarks based on CentOS 4 to know which filesystem is better for

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-11-26 Thread Christopher Chan
Heitor Augusto M Cardozo wrote: Hi all, In last year, i had made some research and benchmarks based on CentOS 4 to know which filesystem is better for Maildir: ReiserFS, XFS or EXT3. My conclusion was as follows: - EXT3: reliable but very slow to read many small files. - ReiserFS: best