Muenz, Michael schrieb:
>> For starters, make sure the syslogd does not sync on every write
>> to postfix and amavis log files (on Linux a '-' needs to be
>> prepended to filenames in syslog.conf).
>>
>> Next try iostat and vmstat, watch for disk activity, swapping, ...
> 
> I've found out that hdd caching is set to write-through and WCE is
> disabled on the discs. I'll try to enable write caching this night,
> but is this a safe solution without a battery backed raid controller
> in case of powerloss?
> 
> Quite offtopic, sorry.

sdparm -s WCE=1  /dev/sg0
sdparm -s WCE=1  /dev/sg1

0.0%wa

load average: 0.52, 0.57, 1.16

Ok, it was the write-cache, thanks to all!

Michael

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