OT - Re: hunting the fatty

[mancyborg at gmail.com]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 10:20:07 -0600
Rick Romero <rick at havokmon.com> wrote:

>   Quoting mancyborg at gmail.com:
> 
> > On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 09:50:29 -0600
> > Rick Romero <rick at havokmon.com> wrote:
> >
> >> LOL.
> >>
> >> This is a horrible subject line.  I've been trying to resolve a DDOS
> >> issue, and ignoring a lot of email. 
> >>
> >> Here I had been thinking this was a sex-spam, and I just got around to
> >> wondering why the spam system isn't working quite right and they kept
> >> coming in.  :P
> >>
> >> Not sure if this was suggested, but use SSD's.  With a ton of mail
> >> combined with Maildir random reads/writes, SSD's are like night and day.
> >>
> >> Rick
> >
> > Very sorry about nasty subject ;)
> > Btw is it worth the offload on i/o by having some Dovecot index or cache
> > on an SSD ?
> 
> Lately I've separated the indexes onto another SSD-based volume, just to
> save read/writes, but I don't think it actually improved anything.
> 
> Rick

I'm going to try dm-cache and flashcache asap ..