Re: Pause while selecting INBOX

2008-09-28 Thread Rob Mueller
> I'd probably use imtest to connect, get the PID of the server process > that I'm connected to, and then attach to that process with ktrace > (or whatever) with timestamps enabled. Then I'd select the mailbox > -- this is assuming that mutt is only issuing a select when it says > "Selecting INBO

Re: Pause while selecting INBOX

2008-09-27 Thread Gary Mills
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 09:42:27AM +1000, Bron Gondwana wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:46:39 +1000, "Rob Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Some things to try if you haven't: > > 6. Don't fetch every single file from your cyrus server every backup run. > > One nice property of cyrus's on-

Re: Pause while selecting INBOX

2008-09-27 Thread Gary Mills
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 01:46:39PM +1000, Rob Mueller wrote: > > > > >Where's the first place to look for this problem? I/O statistics > >show a higher read bandwidth while the backup is running, but writes > >still dominate. The backup would typically read all of the files in > >a single Cyrus

Re: Pause while selecting INBOX

2008-09-27 Thread Gary Mills
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 01:37:30PM -0400, Wesley Craig wrote: > I'd probably use imtest to connect, get the PID of the server process > that I'm connected to, and then attach to that process with ktrace > (or whatever) with timestamps enabled. Then I'd select the mailbox > -- this is assumin

Re: Pause while selecting INBOX

2008-09-27 Thread Gary Mills
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 09:19:25AM -0700, Rob Banz wrote: > > On Sep 26, 2008, at 06:44, Gary Mills wrote: > > >We have a moderately sized Cyrus installation with 2 TB of storage > >and a few thousand simultaneous IMAP sessions. When one of the > >backup processes is running during the day, ther

Re: Pause while selecting INBOX

2008-09-27 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:46:39 +1000, "Rob Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Some things to try if you haven't: > > 1. Make sure you have noatime (and nodiratime if applicable) set on your > FS > 2. If on linux, use the deadline IO scheduler > 3. If you can, split your data and meta data onto se

Re: Pause while selecting INBOX

2008-09-27 Thread Rob Mueller
> We have a moderately sized Cyrus installation with 2 TB of storage > and a few thousand simultaneous IMAP sessions. When one of the > backup processes is running during the day, there's a noticable > slowdown in IMAP client performance. When I start my `mutt' mail > reader, it pauses for sever

Re: Pause while selecting INBOX

2008-09-26 Thread Wesley Craig
I'd probably use imtest to connect, get the PID of the server process that I'm connected to, and then attach to that process with ktrace (or whatever) with timestamps enabled. Then I'd select the mailbox -- this is assuming that mutt is only issuing a select when it says "Selecting INBOX".

Re: Pause while selecting INBOX

2008-09-26 Thread Rob Banz
On Sep 26, 2008, at 06:44, Gary Mills wrote: > We have a moderately sized Cyrus installation with 2 TB of storage > and a few thousand simultaneous IMAP sessions. When one of the > backup processes is running during the day, there's a noticable > slowdown in IMAP client performance. When I star

Pause while selecting INBOX

2008-09-26 Thread Gary Mills
We have a moderately sized Cyrus installation with 2 TB of storage and a few thousand simultaneous IMAP sessions. When one of the backup processes is running during the day, there's a noticable slowdown in IMAP client performance. When I start my `mutt' mail reader, it pauses for several seconds