>> This guy is having a problem with cyrus-imap and ext3 - when multiple >> processes are attempting to write to the one filesystem (but not the one >> file), performance drops to next to nothing when only five processes are >> writing. An strace shows most of the time is being spent in fdatasync >> and fsync.
Actually, the thread just got off topic quickly -- I'm running this on reiserfs, not ext3. ...And I've got it mounted with data=writeback, too. But thanks for the info, Andrew. John -- John Madden UNIX Systems Engineer Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html