On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:27:24PM -0800, Tom Samplonius wrote: > It could be filesystem and kernel related. ext2/3 has historically > not been good at this, but is better now. ufs is actually pretty > good, but mainly because BSD kernels cache so much vnode data, it > does not matter if the directory is hashed on disk or not. > > And you always want "noatime" enabled on your Cyrus spool, no matter > the filesystem or OS, or version of Cyrus. I've got a Solaris 8 ufs with noatime. And this was a one-time one-user problem during extremely high server load. So probably not worth investigating much more closely. Thanks. --Janne ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html