From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 5 14:28:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gandalf.vi.bravenet.com (gandalf.bravenet.com [139.142.105.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D18B637B4EC for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 14:27:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 17523 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Feb 2001 22:27:31 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Feb 2001 22:27:31 -0000 Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 14:27:31 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Phoenix To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: scanner@jurai.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qmail IO problems In-Reply-To: <20010205142218.I26076@fw.wintelcom.net> 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 Going to try the async mount without softupdates on /usr ...where /var/qmail is a symbolic link to /usr...otherwise i run out of inodes from lack of space in /var. So I will go ahead with async and the todo patch from the previous email someone kindly sent about qmail....see how much performance I can get. I'll keep you informed. On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 14:22:18 -0800 > From: Alfred Perlstein > To: Dan Phoenix > Cc: scanner@jurai.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, > freebsd-question@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: qmail IO problems > > * Dan Phoenix [010205 14:05] wrote: > > > > > > Just tried both parameters....nada. > > I am desperately trying to work out a solution here...because this machine > > will be forced back to linux of i can;t find a way to improve the disk > > I/O. Checking on qmail queue patches maybe? Far as I know there is a > > big-to do patch on qmail's homesite....not sure if that will help but > > worth a shot...definately not looking forward to seeing linux again! > > What happens when you run the fs in completely async mode? > > What is the output of your 'mount' command? > > How long did you run with those sysctl options? Your reply came > very quickly, so I'm assuming not very long. > > Are you absolutely sure there's no configuration difference between > when it was Linux and now that it's FreeBSD? Hardware _and_ software > config (qmail) wise? > > Is btw, is this mail being queued up to be sent? Or is it mail > being queued up for sending? > > Are you sure nothing went crazy during the changeover such > that the load is now a lot higher? > > Such as: Are you sure your backup MX is not killing you trying to > deliver all the queued mail it got while the main MX was down? > > Also, the disk isn't at 80-95%, those are transactions per-second. > So unless you're actually seeing a performance problem, then you > don't need to worry although that many tps is pretty high. > > Also, please don't post to -hackers and -questions. A question > should be sent to either, not both. > > -- > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] > "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message