Miserable performance of cyrus-imapd 2.3.9 -- seems to be lockingissues

[Andrew McNamara]

>it takes long enough to rebuild an array with large drives that the
>chances of a second drive failing during the rebuild become noticable.

Worse, the act of rebuilding can prompt a second, marginal disk to fail.
Presumably the mechanics are the head runs through a patch of debris in
an otherwise rarely accessed area of the disk, or the increased load causes
thermal problems.

-- 
Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft
http://www.object-craft.com.au/