[Dovecot] Re: extremely slow delete/move operations?

[Roger Weeks]

On Jan 30, 2006, at 11:12 AM, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:

> Message: 10
> The thing is, these mail servers _are_ the local storage for the  
> mail spools
> and home directories.  There is no network involved when dovecot is
> accessing the INBOX or saved mail folders.  Yes, they're "NFS"  
> mounted, but
> this is RHEL4 (linux 2.6.x), and when an NFS share is mounted from  
> the local
> host, it's done as a bind mount, which means local disk access.

I don't understand this at all.  Mounting anything via NFS should  
only be done from a remote server, where when you type "mount" at a  
commandline you see something like:

10.10.10.2:/data on /var/mail type nfs (rw,nfsvers=3,addr=10.10.10.2)

If your /etc/fstab or your automounts on your RHEL4 box are mouting  
LOCAL disks as type NFS, you have set up something very very wrong.   
Local disks should be mounted at boot like so:

/dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw)

Let's be certain we're clear about this.  The disks where dovecot  
reads and writes your mboxes are local to the RHEL4 machine?  If so,  
you're not using NFS at all.

Roger Weeks