Re: [courier-users] Re: Time-out with courier-imap 1.7 =>linked with nfs problem ??

2003-06-17 Thread Systems Administrator
On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > Is there a way to accelerate the searches ? > > There's nothing to accelerate. The IMAP server runs on the NFS client. The > mailbox runs on the NFS server. To have the client search a four gigabyte > mailbox it is necessary to transfer four gi

[courier-users] Re: Time-out with courier-imap 1.7 => linked with nfs problem ??

2003-06-10 Thread Jerry Amundson
Gordon Messmer wrote: I'll also point out that you are very likely to see this error when your NFS server is using ext3. ext3 is helluva slow, and the Linux kernel will sometimes just stall for 40-60 seconds while it thinks about what it's going to do to the fs. It sucks. Real bad. When the

[courier-users] Re: Time-out with courier-imap 1.7 => linked with nfs problem ??

2003-06-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
Sam Varshavchik wrote: JF Guilmard writes: There is something weird at /var/log/messages when the pb occurs: Jun 8 04:26:33 anarki kernel: nfs: server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx not responding, still trying Jun 8 04:26:35 anarki kernel: nfs: server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx OK ... And last but not least, it s

[courier-users] Re: Time-out with courier-imap 1.7 => linked with nfs problem??

2003-06-09 Thread Sam Varshavchik
JF Guilmard writes:   There is something weird at /var/log/messages when the pb occurs:   Jun  8 04:26:33 anarki kernel: nfs: server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx not responding, still trying Jun  8 04:26:35 anarki kernel: nfs: server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx OK This error message is self-explanatory: no timely response