[Dovecot] Rebuilding indexes fails on inconsistent mdbox

[Charles Marcus]

On 2012-10-24 11:48 PM, Stan Hoeppner <stan at hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> Changing the process priority would not help.  Indexing a large mailbox
> is an IO bound, not a compute bound, operation.  With Linux, changing
> from the CFQ to deadline scheduler may help some with low
> responsiveness.  But the only real solution for such a case where iowait
> is bringing the system to its knees is to acquire storage with far
> greater IOPS and concurrent IO capability.  I.e. a server.

Ok, I get it, thanks for elaborating Stan...

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Best regards,

Charles