Re: cleanup writes incredible slowly to disk (very slow mail delivery)

2017-04-12 Thread Wietse Venema
Michael Meier: > >> smtp-source -t crap@localhost -l 10240 127.0.0.1 > > > > Completes in a 1-3 seconds on a laptop (ssd) and old workstation > > (rust). Obviously the problem is outside of Postfix. > > > > Maybe the outpout from 'lsattr /var/spool/postfix' will reveal > > special

Re: cleanup writes incredible slowly to disk (very slow mail delivery)

2017-04-12 Thread Michael Meier
I've noticed that for sending big mails (10MB) it can take up to 30 min until they are sent. So I investigated a bit into the problem. I deactivated amavis and dkim, so they do not seem to be part of the problem. What happens is, that as soon as I write a bigger e-mail, the system load goes up

Re: cleanup writes incredible slowly to disk (very slow mail delivery)

2017-04-12 Thread Wietse Venema
Michael Meier: > hi all > > I've noticed that for sending big mails (10MB) it can take up to 30 min > until they are sent. So I investigated a bit into the problem. I > deactivated amavis and dkim, so they do not seem to be part of the problem. > What happens is, that as soon as I write a bigger

Re: cleanup writes incredible slowly to disk (very slow mail delivery)

2017-04-12 Thread Michael Meier
>> What happens is, that as soon as I write a bigger e-mail, the system >> load goes up from 0 to around 2.5 and when the mail is send, goes back >> to 0 again, but there is almost no cpu usage at all. So it should have >> something to do with the I/O system I guess. iotop tells me that >>

Re: cleanup writes incredible slowly to disk (very slow mail delivery)

2017-04-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi michael, > What happens is, that as soon as I write a bigger e-mail, the system > load goes up from 0 to around 2.5 and when the mail is send, goes back > to 0 again, but there is almost no cpu usage at all. So it should have > something to do with the I/O system I guess. iotop tells me that

cleanup writes incredible slowly to disk (very slow mail delivery)

2017-04-12 Thread Michael Meier
hi all I've noticed that for sending big mails (10MB) it can take up to 30 min until they are sent. So I investigated a bit into the problem. I deactivated amavis and dkim, so they do not seem to be part of the problem. What happens is, that as soon as I write a bigger e-mail, the system load