[Dovecot] NFS performance and 1.1.3 - what can you (unofficially) get away with?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Sep 10 22:32:14 EEST 2008


On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 12:20 -0700, Jack Stewart wrote:
> The performance hit was bad. When I tried "mail_nfs_index = yes" the 
> load went from 0.5 to 120+ (on each of three servers).

It shouldn't have been anything that bad. I could send you some patches
that reduce what mail_nfs_index=yes does. It would be interesting to
know if the problem is just one or few specific calls or all of them
cumulatively.

> dotlock_use_excl: no

"yes" should be safe (and faster) here.

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