On Fri 16 Feb 2007 at 08:24AM, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
There are madvise(MADV_SEQUENTIAL) calls with mmap_disable=no though.
Dan,
Could you give us other Sun users a few details of your setup, so we can avoid this hole? I am running rc22 on a T2000, Solaris 10 11/06 plus (mostly) current patches, ZFS version 3 for my user homedirs (where cache files and folders go), INBOXes NFS mounted from another Sun S10 box (NFS version 4). I have never touched any of the mmap related settings in dovecot.conf. The whole thing works beautifully for 3000 users. The T2000 never breaks a sweat. The users are happy.
That's good news!
Well the docs say that mmap_disable=yes is important if you are using NFS-- in which case, you'll want the patches Timo just integrated into CVS, if users have large mail cache files, otherwise you'll hit the performance bug I did.
Timo-- why is mmap_disable so important for NFS?
I have been thinking that dovecot should auto-sense the filesystem the various files live on, and adapt its behavior-- (for example, in our environment I've added a "don't bother to fsync on ZFS" patch). Many environments are mixes of NFS and other FS's, as in Jeff's case, so being able to auto-sense and customize behavior would probably be a big win.
-dp-- Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - dp@eng.sun.com - blogs.sun.com/dp