[Dovecot] Indexes.

Henrique Fernandes sf.rique at gmail.com
Thu Dec 2 15:10:02 EET 2010


With recomendation settings do you have ?

how many clients ?

sorry, i did not say i use dovecot 2.0.6

[]'sf.rique


On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Robert Schetterer <robert at schetterer.org>wrote:

> Am 02.12.2010 13:13, schrieb Henrique Fernandes:
> > Hello people!
> >
> > I have huge problems with IO wait becase dovecot configured to use
> maildir
> > is under OCFS2 1.4.  Now i have an question to OCFS2 each disk action is
> > really heavy becaue it has no index.
> >
> > Now i am thinking in what can be done to heltp my system  to use less
> disk.
> >
> > Looking for index and etc in dovecot i found this,   this disables the
> index
> > file on disk and leave it on ram or it disable the index files ?
> >
> > If you really want to, you can also disable the index files completely by
> > appending :INDEX=MEMORY
> >
> >
> > I am only trying to get dovecot to work faster. Right now we have to
> waing
> > some seconds to dovecot list all emails or read an email.
> >
> > I am also thinking in right index to an NFS but i don't know if this
> makes
> > any diferences in performance.
> >
> > Thanks to all!
> >
> > I use 3 servres wrinting on OCFS2  one is mailman, and other two are to
> > email, I have ipvs to load balance the conections.
> >
> >
> > []'sf.rique
> >
>
> hm , i have no problems with ocfs2 (1.4.3-1: amd64  ) on drbd ubuntu lucid
> using dovecot vers 2 recommended settings for cluster file systems
> i have my index files in the maildir dir
>
> --
> Best Regards
>
> MfG Robert Schetterer
>
> Germany/Munich/Bavaria
>


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