> Roland Pope wrote:
> >
> > I am running Cyrus 1.6.24 for around 400 users under Red Hat 6.2 (2.2.14-12
> > Kernel) on a Dual Xeon with 512 Mb of memory using the EXT2 file system. As
> > suggested in the manual, I have set the synchronous bit on the /var/imap and
> > /var/spool/imap directories. As a result, things go very slow when
performing
> > tasks like adding and deleting folders and changing ACLs on folders. Does
anyone
> > have any suggestions how to get a performance increase in this area? Are
there
> > other filesystems being used without +S set?? Does 2.0.12 improve things in
this
> > area? What about later versions of Linux?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Roland Pope
>
>"Paul M Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> I'm supporting 1600 users (400 concurrent) across 3 machines and it
> works pretty well. I've got the mail partitions and config directories
> split across two different partition on 2 different drives. This helps
> ALOT. What type of hard drives are you using?
>
We have 4 18Gb 7200 rpm Seagate LVD SCSI disks, Hardware Mirrored with striping,
giving us a 36 Gb /var partition.
