From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 8 9:19: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D7DB37B401 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:18:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f18HHaY07353; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:17:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:17:36 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200102081717.f18HHaY07353@earth.backplane.com> To: Julian Elischer Cc: Dan Phoenix , Andrew Reilly , Alfred Perlstein , Andre Oppermann , Rik van Riel , Mike Silbersack , Poul-Henning Kamp , Charles Randall , Jos Backus , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems) References: <3A828E13.85E60B98@elischer.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :Don't forget to put logging and other such things on a separate drive.. :even a small 1G drive as a secondary will be ok, as long as it has soft :updates and doesn't share heads with the work area.. : :vmstat 1 and iostat 1 output would be intersting. : :-- : __--_|\ Julian Elischer That's probably a little overkill. Since the log files are not being fsync()'d, they won't generally interfere with other operations. The real killer here is the fsync()ing that the mail system is doing on every file, but that's the price you pay for reliable crash recovery. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message