Too slow

[Sascha Bieler]

YOU'RE THE MAN!!!

;-)

I turned the mail partition now to xfs and it's terribly fast. WOW!!!

Now, I am thinking about to change the root partition also...

Mmmhhhhh....

Greetings

Sascha



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott M. Likens [mailto:damm at yazzy.org]
> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 2:20 AM
> To: Sascha Bieler
> Cc: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: Too slow
> 
> I personally prefer xfs over reiserfs, however I don't think it's
> better, because each file-system has it's give and take.  No matter
> which 'guide' you may find they should tell you the cost and benefit of
> every file-system.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 00:52:51 +0200
> "Sascha Bieler" <sascha.bieler at radiogong.de> wrote:
> 
> > Yes, indeed.
> >
> > That's why I bought an RAID5 Controller and do a backup every night.
> > I have an extra partition for var, so I just have to copy all, boot
> > from disc, format and recopy... That's simple too, but unfortunatly I
> > got no more power today to do this...
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> > Have a good night and nice weekend! Thank u for helping and I'll let
> > u know. Oh one thing I'd like to know: Do u think xfs is better than
> > reiser?
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> > Sascha
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Sascha Bieler
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> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Scott M. Likens [mailto:damm at yazzy.org]
> > > Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 12:29 AM
> > > To: Sascha Bieler
> > > Cc: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> > > Subject: Re: Too slow
> > >
> > > So buy a new drive, format it with reiser or xfs or whatever and do
> > > some tests of your own.
> > >
> > > I know from personal experience after running it with xfs, it was
> > > alot faster then with ext3.
> > >
> > > That or reinstall?
> > >
> > > Why would you keep your mail on your main partition anywho?  If your
> > > drive fails your mail fails.  :(
> > >
> > > That's bad.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 22:57:19 +0200
> > > "Sascha Bieler" <sascha.bieler at radiogong.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > > If I mount all partitions with async it's not getting better...
> > > >
> > > > :-( mmmhhhhh...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Scott M. Likens [mailto:damm at yazzy.org]
> > > > > Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 10:30 PM
> > > > > To: Sascha Bieler
> > > > > Cc: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> > > > > Subject: Re: Too slow
> > > > >
> > > > > 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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> > > > > --
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> > > > > That everything around you give you its utter attention
> > > > > Think only of you, care only for you...
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> > > > >
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> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > "What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
> > > That everything around you give you its utter attention
> > > Think only of you, care only for you...
> > > Every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates"
> > >
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> 
> --
> "What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act?
> That everything around you give you its utter attention
> Think only of you, care only for you...
> Every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates"
>