6 Feb
2007
6 Feb
'07
10:58 p.m.
On 6.2.2007, at 22.51, Dan Price wrote:
- The system I/O load in general could grow, which would make the system slower for everyone.
I think 1) isn't that big of an issue normally since the delays
should be fractions of a second, but 2) is.We're in agreement on (1), but I don't think I understand (2).
I'm mostly thinking that if the data isn't written to disk before
it's updated again, there's no need to write it twice then.
I think any IMAP daemon would want to get its bits out to the
platter in a reasonable time frame so that changes to the box don't sit in
dirty VM or buffer cache pages in the event of power fail or catastrophe.
Yes, but doesn't that normally happen with all filesystem in
"reasonable amount of time" anyway? I thought it was always around
few seconds to a minute or so, but I don't know this for a fact.