Re: Performance and cheap storage

2006-07-23 Thread Mark Hellman
Robert Banz wrote: > The second thing to consider is that the performance on modern SATA > drives, if you're using a driver for the SATA interface that supports > advanced features such as command queueing, are going to show you > performance akin to SCSI drives -- even more so if you place them >

Performance and cheap storage

2006-07-22 Thread Mark Hellman
I have noticed that mail delivery (from Postfix to Cyrus using LMTP) can be harsh in terms of I/O when several hundreds of messages are being delivered at once. I have local mailing-lists with more than 1 thousand members and when a 500 KB email is sent to the list, the server's load average increa

Performance and cheap storage

2006-07-22 Thread Mark Hellman
I have noticed that mail delivery (from Postfix to Cyrus using LMTP) can be harsh in terms of I/O when several hundreds of messages are being delivered at once. I have local mailing-lists with more than 1 thousand members and when a 500 KB email is sent to the list, the server's load average increa

Custom logging

2004-01-07 Thread Mark Hellman
I would like to process Cyrus logs and do some date arithmetic. But this is difficult because Syslog does not log the year, only month and day. And changing Syslog date format involves recompiling its source, and risking breaking other program that depend on Syslog's default date format. One solut