At 04:00 PM 8/17/2007, Mark Messier wrote:
I've got a freebsd 6.2 system, dual 2Ghz 5130 cpu, 4g ram, with raid5
Adaptec 2120s, running not much more than /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw
and I'm having performance problems with only 20 IMAP users.
As previously suggested, Raid 5's performance sucks
On Aug 18, 2007, at 10:41 AM, Rob wrote:
What mailfile format are you using - mbox / mdir? And while it
might be a major change, consider dumping UW and using Dovecot
http://dovecot.org/ UW's performance, scalability, and security
have been less than great for many years.
UW's
I've got a freebsd 6.2 system, dual 2Ghz 5130 cpu, 4g ram, with raid5
Adaptec 2120s, running not much more than /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw
and I'm having performance problems with only 20 IMAP users.
I'm not swapping.. cpu is mostly idle, so I figure it must be I/O
performance. Just to confirm, is
On Aug 17, 2007, at 1:00 PM, Mark Messier wrote:
I've got a freebsd 6.2 system, dual 2Ghz 5130 cpu, 4g ram, with raid5
Adaptec 2120s, running not much more than /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw
and I'm having performance problems with only 20 IMAP users.
I'm not swapping.. cpu is mostly idle, so I
Hello Mark:
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Subject: performance hints (6.2)
I've got a freebsd 6.2 system, dual 2Ghz 5130 cpu, 4g ram
What does a gstat look like over time?
Oooh, didn't know about gstat it shows disks as being 102% busy
at times :-)
Thanks to you and Chuck S. for the hints.
-mark
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 01:35:48PM -0700, Mark Messier wrote:
What does a gstat look like over time?
Oooh, didn't know about gstat it shows disks as being 102% busy
at times :-)
gstat's busy statistic is entirely meaningless for this context
(rather, it has a meaning but it's not
