On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 13:14 +0100, Simon Matter wrote: > 1) Try to put different kind of data (spool, meta databases) on > independant storage (which means independant paths, disks, SAN > controllers). For the small things like cyrus databases, putting them on > separate local attached SCSI/SATA disks seems a very good idea. From what > I know about AoE I think it will always suffer latency problems compared > to FC or SCSI, simply because ethernet cards are not exactly designed for > that kind of task. I'll see what I can do about that, since it's a live system and it's hard to take it down to add disks now... However, moving deliver.db to a memory-based FS didn't help much, but it could be that there are other I/O bottlenecks. > Sorry it doesn't help you much, I just tried to share some of my experiences. No problem, I really appreciate all the ideas. Thanks, Andre ---- 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
