[Dovecot] Significant performance problems

[Chris Hobbs]

  On 10/6/10 11:26 PM, Brandon Davidson wrote:
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>> I do have one more idea I'll throw out there. Everything I've got here
>> is virtual. I only have the one Dovecot/Postfix server running now, and
>> the impression I get from you all is that that should be adequate for my
>> load. What would the collective opinion be of simply removing the NFS
>> server altogether and mounting the virtual disk holding my messages
>> directly to the dovecot server?
> If you're not planning on doing some sort of HA failover or load balancing,
> and have the option to make your storage direct-attached instead of NAS, it
> might be worth trying. There's not much to be gained from NFS in a
> single-node configuration.
I ended up implementing this just now. Still had load issues this 
morning and I'm hoping that removing NFS helps me out.

Chris
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Chris Hobbs
Director, Technology
New Haven Unified School District

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