Re: [Dovecot] Questions about converting maildir to mdbox.

2011-04-12 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 14:29 -0300, Henrique Fernandes wrote: I am thinking in converting some email for testing propose, but i am wondoring how would dovecot convert this, like if i convert all mail from maildir to mdbox it would make many mailbox based on this seetings ? Or in the first

[Dovecot] Questions about converting maildir to mdbox.

2011-04-10 Thread Henrique Fernandes
First of all i would like to thanks Timo for the excellent job done in dovecot. We are using it in you prodution server with about 5 millions of emails and it is pretty good, only a performance problens but i guess it is realated to ocfs2 that we are using. So lets begin: We are using dovecot

Re: [Dovecot] Questions about converting maildir to mdbox.

2011-04-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Henrique Fernandes put forth on 4/10/2011 12:29 PM: We are using dovecot 2.0.6 with maildir in an ocfs2 partiton. It is pretty slow access in peak time, but it is related to ocfs2 as i said before, i am trying to mimimize the ocfs2 latancy by using mdbox. Another problem that we have are

Re: [Dovecot] Questions about converting maildir to mdbox.

2011-04-10 Thread Henrique Fernandes
Thanks, but we did ran teste in the disks, and the problem was find file, not actuly writing or reading them, so we guess is a ofs2 problem, thats why now we are thinking in mdbox, to reduce the find files problem one thing that realy helped the performance was give lots of ram in the virtual

Re: [Dovecot] Questions about converting maildir to mdbox.

2011-04-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Henrique Fernandes put forth on 4/10/2011 5:29 PM: Thanks, but we did ran teste in the disks, and the problem was find file, not actuly writing or reading them, so we guess is a ofs2 problem, thats why Hi Henrique, Finding a file is a filesystem metadata operation, which entails walking the