[Dovecot] Unexpected behaviour when deleteing a big mailbox

John Robinson john.robinson at anonymous.org.uk
Thu Mar 29 23:18:32 EEST 2007


On 29/03/2007 15:19, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> xfs is a lot slower than ext3 with maildir at least in my tests.
> 
> Doh, hm, I'm back to ext3 then.
> 
> When Ext3 opens a directory with many many files, the whole system slows 
> down, an user managed to issue a tremendous slow down via NFS on the 
> server. :-(

That's probably NFS's fault, not ext3's.

Cheers,

John.


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