On 15/05/2009 9:49 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 09:35 +1000, Phillip Macey wrote:
We are having some performancec issues on our server at the moment - all I can put it down to is the large size of some maildirs. Eg.
ls -ld Maildir/curmight show a directory >20Mb in size for some of our users (20-30k emails). (Performance issues == everything is running ok then all of a sudden load avg goes through the roof, system cpu time goes crazy. Reading mail grinds to a halt. Then everything recovers just as suddenly and the load avg gradually returns to normal levels)Do you have POP3 users? What clients do your users typically use?
50% pop. 50% imap.. Roughly.
BTW. Kind of nasty to hijack a pretty much unrelated thread to your question..
Apologies, I wasn't intending it to be a hijack. Steffen said he had no problems. I was only making trying to point out that maildir can also have its problems as well. I dont know how MBox would handle the same situation because we dont have any MBox storage.
I may post another thread if we still have problems after I have finished tidying up some peoples maildirs.
-- Thanks, Phill Macey