Re: Too slow

2006-10-25 Thread Marten Lehmann
Hello, I turned the mail partition now to xfs and it's terribly fast. WOW!!! did you use an ext3 partition with dir_index before? I'm just asking because we are at a similar point and need to make a decision. All benchmarks I know of don't show that XFS actually performs faster than a

Re: Too slow

2006-10-25 Thread Warren Turkal
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 20:20, Marten Lehmann wrote: did you use an ext3 partition with dir_index before? I'm just asking because we are at a similar point and need to make a decision. All benchmarks I know of don't show that XFS actually performs faster than a modern ext3. Actually, with

Re: Too slow

2006-10-25 Thread Robert Mueller
I turned the mail partition now to xfs and it's terribly fast. WOW!!! did you use an ext3 partition with dir_index before? I'm just asking We've just had some experience with filesystems ourselves. Previously we've used reiserfs exclusively for the last 5 years. All up, it's been really

Re: Too slow

2006-04-07 Thread Patrick Radtke
On Apr 7, 2006, at 2:58 PM, Sascha Bieler wrote: Everythings working just fine, but when I want to delete an email it's so slowly... Has anyone a hint for me? I assume deleting is expunging the messages and not just flagging the messages as deleted.I don't have a hint for your setup, but 

Too slow

2006-04-07 Thread Sascha Bieler
Hi there, I am running cyrus-imapd-2.1.12 on a Gentoo Linux with kernel 2.6.15. Got a Pentium 4 Xeon 2,8 GHz and 2 GB Ram. The cyruspartition is ext3 on a SCSI RAID 5. hdparm -tT /dev/sda says: /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 2316 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1158.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk

Too slow

2006-04-07 Thread Sascha Bieler
Hi there, I am running cyrus-imapd-2.1.12 on a Gentoo Linux with kernel 2.6.15. Got a Pentium 4 Xeon 2,8 GHz and 2 GB Ram. The cyruspartition is ext3 on a SCSI RAID 5. hdparm -tT /dev/sda says: /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 2316 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1158.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk

RE: Too slow

2006-04-07 Thread Sascha Bieler
, April 07, 2006 9:12 PM To: Sascha Bieler Cc: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu Subject: Re: Too slow On Apr 7, 2006, at 2:58 PM, Sascha Bieler wrote: Everythings working just fine, but when I want to delete an email it's so slowly... Has anyone a hint for me? I assume deleting is expunging

Re: Too slow

2006-04-07 Thread Scott M. Likens
Don't use ext3? Honestly ext2/3 is fine and dandy, but gentoo does +S the /var/imap folder, so everything has to call a sync() That is slow on ext2/3, perhaps reiserfs or xfs would be better for you? On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 20:58:57 +0200 Sascha Bieler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I am

RE: Too slow

2006-04-07 Thread Sascha Bieler
If I mount all partitions with async it's not getting better... :-( mmmh... -Original Message- From: Scott M. Likens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 10:30 PM To: Sascha Bieler Cc: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu Subject: Re: Too slow Don't use ext3

Re: Too slow

2006-04-07 Thread Scott M. Likens
10:30 PM To: Sascha Bieler Cc: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu Subject: Re: Too slow Don't use ext3? Honestly ext2/3 is fine and dandy, but gentoo does +S the /var/imap folder, so everything has to call a sync() That is slow on ext2/3, perhaps reiserfs or xfs would be better

RE: Too slow

2006-04-07 Thread Sascha Bieler
Message- From: Scott M. Likens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 12:29 AM To: Sascha Bieler Cc: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu Subject: Re: Too slow So buy a new drive, format it with reiser or xfs or whatever and do some tests of your own. I know from personal

Re: Too slow

2006-04-07 Thread Scott M. Likens
München -Original Message- From: Scott M. Likens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 12:29 AM To: Sascha Bieler Cc: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu Subject: Re: Too slow So buy a new drive, format it with reiser or xfs or whatever and do some tests

Re: Too slow

2006-04-07 Thread Michael Loftis
--On April 7, 2006 8:58:57 PM +0200 Sascha Bieler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I am running cyrus-imapd-2.1.12 on a Gentoo Linux with kernel 2.6.15. Got a Pentium 4 Xeon 2,8 GHz and 2 GB Ram. The cyruspartition is ext3 on a SCSI RAID 5. hdparm -tT /dev/sda says: /dev/sda: