Hi,
Faster I/O definitely going to help.
eg:
9 SCSI disks on RAID 5
Cheers
patrick
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Chris McGinnis wrote:
> I tried optimizing qpopper and then moving to Dovecot. Neither solution
> worked for me. Even Dovecot would timeout under heavy load. I solved the
> problem by moving some of my heavy traffic sites to another box. I'm
> wondering if a faster hard drive would help out with the I/O timeouts on the
> disk. I'd also like to know if maildir would be a better solution than the
> current mbox format used.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: ""Ing. Ernesto PñÓez Estñ×ez"" <info (at mark) ecualinux.com>
> To: <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 11:46 AM
> Subject: [coba-e:04717] Re: help
>
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> > Hi Carlos
> >
> > this has been discussed several times on the list.
> >
> > My guess (as genius) is that qpopper working via xinetd is too slow to
> > handle too much load (or too few).
> >
> > I ended by compiling and installing dovecot as suggested on this list
> > previously and this nightmare went away finally.
> >
> > It is really annoying indeed.
> >
> > Is there anything else I can help you?
> >
> > regards
> > - --
> > Ing. Ernesto PñÓez Estñ×ez
> > http://www.ecualinux.com
> > USA: + 1 404 795 0321
> > Ecuador: (02)3412402 - (09) 9246504
> >
> >
> > Carlos Alperin wrote:
> >> I'm not the one that originate the e-mail, but since you're the genius
> >> let's ask:
> >>
> >> I have CentOS 4.3 on a P4 3.0 GHz, 4 GB Ram and 250 GB HD on Raid 1 just
> >> for /home.
> >>
> >> We have problems with in.qpopper that gaves timeout all the time. We
> >> tried to install
> >> Dovecot last week & didn't work. Then we change some parameters
> >> like -s -R -S on one
> >> of the configuration files of the qpopper, and we have no problems during
> >> the last 4
> >> days.
> >>
> >> Today, with the high traffic, the problems show up again.
> >>
> >> Any clue how to fix this?
> >>
> >> Any good procedure to move to Dovecot or some other POP handler?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Carlos Alperin
> >> Seneca Communications, LLC
> >>
> >> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:22:34 -0500, Ing. Ernesto PñÓez Estñ×ez wrote
> >> Im the Genius of the lamp, how may I help you?
> >>
> >> Diego Lo Giudice wrote:
> >>>>> Help
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >> --
> >> Ing. Ernesto PñÓez Estñ×ez
> >> http://www.ecualinux.com
> >> USA: + 1 404 795 0321
> >> Ecuador: (02)3412402 - (09) 9246504
> >
> >> --
> >> Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)
> >
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