Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:41:24 -0400 From: Rob <r17fbsd@xxiii.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: performance hints (6.2) Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20070818113706.02c7b950@mailsvr.xxiii.com> In-Reply-To: <4B90A9A7-D8D6-49C5-B097-00094486EF4A@messier.com> References: <4B90A9A7-D8D6-49C5-B097-00094486EF4A@messier.com>
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At 04:00 PM 8/17/2007, Mark Messier wrote: >I've got a freebsd 6.2 system, dual 2Ghz 5130 cpu, 4g ram, with raid5 >Adaptec 2120s, running not much more than /usr/ports/mail/imap-uw >and I'm having performance problems with only 20 IMAP users. As previously suggested, Raid 5's performance sucks for almost every application. What mailfile format are you using - mbox / mdir? And while it might be a major change, consider dumping UW and using Dovecot http://dovecot.org/ UW's performance, scalability, and security have been less than great for many years. -RW
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