Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 21:30:56 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Luciano Mannucci <luciano@vespaperitivo.it>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Directory listing speed Message-ID: <e3d61568-dfe7-1934-001c-295e146167f3@sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <3zLS8V1nCxz3jYqr@baobab.bilink.it> References: <3zLS8V1nCxz3jYqr@baobab.bilink.it>
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On 1/16/2018 6:06 AM, Luciano Mannucci wrote: > > Hello all, > > I just moved my old openSUsE 11.4 mail server to freebsd 10.4 (postfix+ > dovecot+clamav) and it seems to work fine :-)... > > I noticed that the directory listing of my users mailboxes (around five > hundred) is way slower than in linux. > Is it normal? > > Do I need to tweak some kernel parameters (I have a lot of free RAM)? > > I've already set the kern.maxusers to 4096, is that enough? You shouldnt need to do that. Are the mailboxes on UFS ? If so, try increasing vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem Also, if you have a lot of users in the master.passwd file, I find changing /etc/nsswitch.conf to group: files group_compat: nis hosts: files dns networks: files passwd: files passwd_compat: nis shells: files services: compat services_compat: nis protocols: files rpc: files ---Mike > > Many thanks to everybody, > > Luciano. > -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/
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