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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I mount all partitions with async it's not getting better... > > :-( mmmhhhhh... > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Scott M. Likens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 10:30 PM > > To: Sascha Bieler > > Cc: info-cyrus@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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > > > > ---- > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > "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" > > > > > > !DSPAM:4436e6a064921804284693! > > -- "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" ---- 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
