[Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

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Il 23/06/2010 07:12, Rajesh M ha scritto:
> stan
>
> my machine is dual core dual processor xeon 1.6 gig proc
> 4 gb ram
> 1 tb sata for centos linux
> 1 tb sata for vpopmail domains data, mysql db and log data
> my hdd usage is at 60 percent now.
>    

Hello, dunno what filesystem you are using. If it's ext3/4 I suggest you 
to mount it with noatime option.

Accessing a large Maildir folder with atime it's a pain. On an old 
server that in the peak time was at 12-15 load average I've lowered the 
load to < 5 only remounting with noatime option.