Too slow

[Scott M. Likens]

Don't use ext3? 

Honestly ext2/3 is fine and dandy, but gentoo does +S the /var/imap
folder, so everything has to call a sync()

That is slow on ext2/3, perhaps reiserfs or xfs would be better for you?

On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 20:58:57 +0200
"Sascha Bieler" <sascha.bieler at radiogong.de> wrote:

> Hi  there,
> 
> I am running cyrus-imapd-2.1.12 on  a Gentoo Linux with kernel 2.6.15.
> 
> Got a Pentium 4 Xeon 2,8 GHz and 2 GB Ram. The cyruspartition is ext3
> on a SCSI RAID 5.
> 
> hdparm -tT /dev/sda says:
> 
> /dev/sda:
>  Timing cached reads:   2316 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1158.00 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads:   80 MB in  3.01 seconds =  26.58 MB/sec
> 
> 
> 
> Everythings working just fine, but when I want to delete an email it's
> sooooo slowly...
> 
> Has anyone a hint for me?
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Sascha
> 
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