From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 5 13:27:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [64.0.106.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 635F837B401; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 13:27:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (scanner@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA27370; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 16:27:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 16:27:21 -0500 (EST) From: To: Dan Phoenix Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-question@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qmail IO problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Dan Phoenix wrote: > > I am sitting with a 80-90% IO disk problem after converting this one box > from linux to freebsd. I enabled soft-updates on that partition...that did > not help to much...and ram is fine. I am guessing because ext2fs uses > asyncronous metadatawrites and favors speed over reliablity that that is > why linux was able to handle it. Hi dan. Just out of curiosity what leads you to think its I/O? Is this sending or receiving? You say its on one partition? Is the mail spool directory hashed? How many mail's are you doing a second? How many mails WERE you doing a second on linux? A little more insight into how things are configured would help a bit. :-) I bet brad will see this too and he will surely know the right direction to point you. I run mostly postfix here. Since it has lower overhead writing mail. If your queue is being filled up because qmail isnt processing them fast enough that mostly sounds just like a configuration problem. But again I dont know what your traffic is like. If its something small or something crazy. ============================================================================= -Chris Watson (316) 326-3862 | FreeBSD Consultant, FreeBSD Geek Work: scanner@jurai.net | Open Systems Inc., Wellington, Kansas Home: scanner@deceptively.shady.org | http://open-systems.net ============================================================================= WINDOWS: "Where do you want to go today?" LINUX: "Where do you want to go tommorow?" BSD: "Are you guys coming or what?" ============================================================================= irc.openprojects.net #FreeBSD -Join the revolution! ICQ: 20016186 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message