Hi Charles,
Thanks for your reply.
Am 10.07.08 20:04 schrieb "Charles Gregory" unter
<cgregory(_at_)hwcn(_dot_)org>:
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Markus Krause wrote:
We have a mail server (IBM linux machine, with SuSE Linux), 16 CPU (Xeon
2,5GHz), 16 GB RAM, 500 GB RAID5.....
...Sometimes we were getting a load of up to 250.....
...disk i/o is near 100% all the time.....
...users mailboxes, some (about 25) have inboxes of over 1.5 GB....
Wild idea: Could this be your *memory* and/or *swap* space? Are there any
load issues there? If your system is trying to virtualize ~32GB of memory,
it could be thrashing those disks big-time trying to keep everyone going.
No, the swap space is hardly used even at that "high load times".
Can you see whether the i/o to one of the two RAID arrays is higher
than the other? That might also point in the direction of swap or user
space....
The I/O is near 100% on both RAID arrays.
Somehow i think there might be an issue with the combination imapd <-> xfs
in some situations...
Maybe i should try another imap deamon. Has someone experiance with dovecot?
Thanks in advance!
regards
Markus
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