Well, it may not be the only limiting factor, but I do believe that it can
play a critical role for busy servers. Some of my customers have rather
large mbox files. I'm sure if they all had little 50KB mbox's it'd be okay.
However, that's not the case. Large mbox files mean more work by the disk.
I am also a supporter of moving to the maildir format. I think it will
greatly improve performance and reliability of mailboxes.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Sherman" <cobalt-list (at mark) compros.co.il>
To: <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 1:26 PM
Subject: [coba-e:05023] Re: The ongoing QPOPPER Debate
>> I've also made these changes. The only solution was to move
>> heavy traffic sites to another server. I also think that I/O
>> to the disk is a bottleneck.
>> I have tried replacing Qpopper with Dovecot and got the same
>> results. On my next server I plan on putting some enterprise
>> Western Digital drives in to see if they perform any better.
>
> This doesn't explain why raqs with quite outdated disks happily handle 90+
> concurrent connections, doesn't it?
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