On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Paul Vallee wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We are having performance problems with our mailserver, especially when we
> try to back it up. I am attempting to set up an incremental backup of the
> imap spool, and preferably to include only files since the last incremental
> backup. I am a reasonably advanced shell scripter, and I don't need help
> with coding that.
>
> My problem is that basic filesystem commands on this mount point are
> intolerably slow, and if I dare to run even find on this filesystem the load
> shoots up high enough to affect service.

is it mounted with -o noatime ?

.TM.
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