Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 01:18:35AM -0800, Seth Mattinen wrote: > >> Have you tried a filesystem other than ext3 like Reiser or XFS? The >> performance of ext3 really, really sucks if you have a lot of files in >> one directory as a mail spool is bound to have. > > This is not so in most cases. Ext3 is just fine for Postfix. >
The only reason I mention it is because I had a problem with ext3 performance on my Postfix systems. The array controller is a 3ware 9550SX with 256M cache+BBU. Switching to XFS helped my case. ~Seth
