---- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 10:00 AM Subject: Re: [Courier-imap] famd : use or disable ?
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Well - question related to this: does anyone use gamin with RHEL5/FC7 and >> homedirs on nfs? Does it work? >> We are mounting homedirs from NetApp NAS250 and i saw some strange >> behavior >> with gamin under load - don't quite remember detail now, but i think it >> was >> huge wait times. >> Didn't have time to troubleshoot - production server and all, but would >> love >> the come back to gamin at some point. >> Oh - system is Cento5/ courier imap 4.1.3 >> > > I'm using two RHEL5 boxes, 1 for SMTP, 1 for IMAP/POP3/etc. The IMAP > boxes has the maildirs and exports them to the SMTP server via NFS. So > no, I haven't used Gamin over NFS (since the IMAP server has local > access to the maildirs, only smtp services need to use NFS). You will > definitely lose some benefit of Gamin over NFS as the NetApps have no > method of notifying Gamin of filesystem changes. However, Gamin should > be able to "poll" the maildirs over NFS to get updates which should > still perform better than the IMAP clients polling the IMAP Server which > in turn has to poll the NFS server. > > According to the docs at > http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/config.html you should be able to > force Gamin to consider a given directory as a NFS filesystem and only > poll ever X seconds. You should probably play with these settings. > > Jay Thanks you so much Jay - i'll try and post the results. I bet some people have similar setup. Vadim > > -- > Jay Lee > Network/Systems Administrator > Information Technology Department > Philadelphia Biblical University > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
