Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and nfs readdir vs readdirplus operations

2012-07-06 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El 05/07/12 16:46, Timo Sirainen escribió: 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 w

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and nfs readdir vs readdirplus operations

2012-07-05 Thread Frank Bonnet
I don't think there are NFS special options on NetApp filers but you can use ethernet jumbo frames to boost network access between your server and the filer. You also can use iSCSI between server and filer but it will waste a lot of disk space on the Ontap volume. I use NFS between a FreeBSD se

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and nfs readdir vs readdirplus operations

2012-07-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
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 littl

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and nfs readdir vs readdirplus operations

2012-07-05 Thread Mauricio López Riffo
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 escribi

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and nfs readdir vs readdirplus operations

2012-07-05 Thread Timo Sirainen
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 c

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and nfs readdir vs readdirplus operations

2012-07-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
(thousands of mails) in maildir format, this is small folders. From my practice average are 1-2 mails. Huge are over 15.

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and nfs readdir vs readdirplus operations

2012-07-05 Thread Timo Sirainen
On 5.7.2012, at 15.55, Angel L. Mateo wrote: > I think you are right. I guess that the differnce between my old system > (who uses readdir and readdirplus) and the new one (which just uses > readdirplus) is because of changes on the kernel. For some threads I have > read (for example, htt

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and nfs readdir vs readdirplus operations

2012-07-05 Thread Angel L. Mateo
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 in

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and nfs readdir vs readdirplus operations

2012-07-04 Thread Angel L. Mateo
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 saf

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and nfs readdir vs readdirplus operations

2012-07-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
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 safe to use it although a user could

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and nfs readdir vs readdirplus operations

2012-07-04 Thread Angel L. Mateo
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 safe to use it although a user could have open simultaneous sessions in different servers? -- An

Re: [Dovecot] dovecot and nfs readdir vs readdirplus operations

2012-07-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
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 in the new one we have 46% of > readdirplus

[Dovecot] dovecot and nfs readdir vs readdirplus operations

2012-07-04 Thread Angel L. Mateo
Hello, We are having performance problems trying to migrate our pop/imap servers to a new version. Our old servers are 4 debian lenny with 5GB of RAM running of XenServer VMs with kernel 2.6.32-4-amd64 and dovecot 1.1.16. New servers are 4 ubuntu 12.04 with dovecot 2.1.5 running on vmware vm