El 05/07/12 07:49, Timo Sirainen escribió:
On 5.7.2012, at 8.44, Angel L. Mateo wrote:
El 04/07/12 23:55, Timo Sirainen escribió:
Also maildir_very_dirty_syncs=yes improves performance by reducing readdirs.
It's safe to use as long as only Dovecot is reading the Maildir.
Is it
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote:
On 7/4/2012 4:09 PM, Adrian Minta wrote:
On 07/04/12 23:22, J E Lyon wrote:
On 4 Jul 2012, at 21:01, Adrian Minta wrote:
What is the best strategy to add another storage to an existing
virtual mail system ?
Move
On 5.7.2012, at 10.44, Adrian M wrote:
All this is telling me that is safer to have two or tree smaller
filesystems than a big one. Dovecot has a nice feature for this
Directory hashing http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/
What I don't know is a nice way to migrate from a single directory
On 7/5/2012 2:44 AM, Adrian M wrote:
Hi Stan,
I know how to add drives to the storage and how to grow the existing
filesystem, but such big filesystems are somehow new to mainstream
linux. Yes, I know some university out there already have pentabytes
filesystems, but right now stable linux
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote:
On 7/5/2012 2:44 AM, Adrian M wrote:
Hi Stan,
I know how to add drives to the storage and how to grow the existing
filesystem, but such big filesystems are somehow new to mainstream
linux. Yes, I know some
On 5 Jul 2012, at 08:44, Adrian M wrote:
Hi Stan,
I know how to add drives to the storage and how to grow the existing
filesystem, but such big filesystems are somehow new to mainstream
linux. Yes, I know some university out there already have pentabytes
filesystems, but right now stable
On 5 Jul 2012, at 10:45, Kaya Saman wrote:
But then one must think, do I really want to switch OS?
I heard a rumour that switching OS is sometimes harder than adding a mountpoint
:)
J.
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:48 AM, J E Lyon
role.dovecot-read...@jlassocs.com wrote:
On 5 Jul 2012, at 10:45, Kaya Saman wrote:
But then one must think, do I really want to switch OS?
I heard a rumour that switching OS is sometimes harder than adding a
mountpoint :)
J.
It can be!
That's
On 5 Jul 2012, at 10:55, Kaya Saman wrote:
That's why I'm not even thinking of migrating the mission critical
stuff running on CentOS 5 to even CentOS 6 yet.
I'm in an identical position there -- and in fact, I think it's time to get
some virtualised hosting of CentOS 6 servers, once I decide
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote:
On 7/5/2012 2:44 AM, Adrian M wrote:
Hi Stan,
I know how to add drives to the storage and how to grow the existing
filesystem, but such big filesystems are somehow new to mainstream
linux. Yes, I know some
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:46 PM, J E Lyon
role.dovecot-read...@jlassocs.com wrote:
When I first saw you mention hashing, I misread it as some sort of hash-table
approach to large directories that I wasn't aware of, or something . . And
now I've read the Dovecot documentation, I see what
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:01 AM, J E Lyon
role.dovecot-read...@jlassocs.com wrote:
On 5 Jul 2012, at 10:55, Kaya Saman wrote:
That's why I'm not even thinking of migrating the mission critical
stuff running on CentOS 5 to even CentOS 6 yet.
I'm in an identical position there -- and in fact,
It absolutely kills me every time I see a mail server admin display
almost total lack of knowledge of his/her storage back end, or the
inability to describe it technically, in an email...
You should get used to this. Welcome in XXI century!
The rule is
amount of real knowledge*official paper
On 2012-07-05 5:45 AM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote:
FreeBSD 8.2 x64 running on VMware
Hi Kaya,
Do you (or anyone else) know of any decent VMWare images (appliance) of
current version of FreeBSD? I've been debating on switching from Gentoo
to FreeBSD for a while now, and would love
Am 05.07.2012 12:33, schrieb Charles Marcus:
On 2012-07-05 5:45 AM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote:
FreeBSD 8.2 x64 running on VMware
Hi Kaya,
Do you (or anyone else) know of any decent VMWare images (appliance) of
current version of FreeBSD? I've been
debating on switching from
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Charles Marcus
cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote:
On 2012-07-05 5:45 AM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote:
FreeBSD 8.2 x64 running on VMware
Hi Kaya,
Do you (or anyone else) know of any decent VMWare images (appliance) of
current version of FreeBSD? I've
this is actually offtopic from the OP however, feel free to PM with
any questions you have :-)
However, in response I didn't use any images, just the simple FreeBSD
8.2 AMD64 ISO. and installed from there.
and it will work on many VM systems. And works best without any VM
overlay.
Hi there,
I have a pretty standard setup with simple dovecot 2,0 configuration
(eg /var/mailboxes on NFS with old netapp) and local ldap directory and
Maildir.
I wanted to find a good way to migrate from NFS old netapp to NFS new
server (this one is not a netapp !).
There 3 kind way
I wanted to find a good way to migrate from NFS old netapp to NFS new server
(this one is not a netapp !).
why not just attaching disks directly? going from older nonsense to newer
one :)
There 3 kind way (according to my own experience)
- rsync old spool to new spool being patient stop
~ James.
Thank you, this is a valid suggestion, especially since it could be
done directly with some SQL magic in dovecot config file.
I will consider this option !
as i always run dovecot using standard unix auth/password mechanism and
mail user is always unix user, then it is rather
Am however, trying to do all clean installs on FreeBSD where I **can
** get away with it.
right.
Ok this may sound incredibly sad so don't sue me for it, but for my
OpenSource work at home I have switched over from 15+ Linux servers
down to 1x FreeBSD system running Jails.
quite a common
At 16TB+ scale with maildir you should be using XFS on kernel 3.x, not
EXT4. Your performance will be significantly better, as in 30% or much
why you want to make 16TB partition at first place?
El 04/07/12 23:55, Timo Sirainen escribió:
On 4.7.2012, at 21.49, Angel L. Mateo wrote:
Although nfs configuration is the same, there are a lot of differences
on readdir vs readdirplus nfs operations. In fact, in the old one we have 12%
readdir operations and 3% of readdirplus. And
(thousands of mails) in maildir format,
this is small folders. From my practice average are 1-2 mails.
Huge are over 15.
On 5.7.2012, at 15.55, Angel L. Mateo wrote:
Concluding... in my systems, with users with hugh mail folders
(thousands of mails) in maildir format, disabling rdirplus with mount options
(mount option nordirplus) increases performance (maybe we could do more
precise test and this
Timo,
For Netapp NFS mailstorage, what options can use for mount point
nfs? for better perfomance with huge maildir folders? (most of my
customers use pop3 protocol instead imap) Any kernel customize? All of
my mta servers is Centos 6
Regards
El 05-07-2012 10:46, Timo Sirainen
this is small folders. From my practice average are 1-2 mails. Huge
are over 15.
did tests with artifically created million mail folder.
except i needed to rise vsize limit of dovecot process in config , and
except first index creation it works smooth with dovecot taking
use the search, Luke)
http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2012-March/064512.html
this thread was all that I needed to setup replication for testing.
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On 7/5/2012 6:36 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
At 16TB+ scale with maildir you should be using XFS on kernel 3.x, not
EXT4. Your performance will be significantly better, as in 30% or much
why you want to make 16TB partition at first place?
You wouldn't partition the large LUN. You'd simply
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