Hi Robert, many thanks for your answer! Yes I'm aware of the necessity to upgrade the complete system. Beside this I wanted to search for a quick solution. Upgrading the system entails many other things and is in my eyes not possible on the living system. Did you ever measure the ioactiviy with iostat on your machine? Please tell me the output values. Which hardware do you use? I have a RAID5 with 3ware 7000 series. Regards Rainer
Robert Schetterer wrote:
Rainer Sigl schrieb:
Hi List, on my mailserver (exim4, dovecot 1.0.0, postgresql, ubuntu dapper, about 500 users) I record an enourmous amount of disc writes (up to 18000 blocks written each second) in the time where most of users are active. This IO activity causes wait-states on the disc interface (RAID5) and finally slows down my mailmachine. Is there a explanation for these disc writes respectively is there a possibility to minimize this activity. Stopping Dovecot on this machine causes stopping most of the disc activity.
Regards Rainer Sigl
Hi Rainer first you should upgrade to the latest stable of the 1.x branch or better 1.1.x, also dapper is very old perhaps try hardy
then retest, i run 2000 users on suse with dovecot 1.0.15 and mysql on sata 3ware hardware raid 1 500 GB on ext3 without any problems
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