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Re: how to increase throughput of postfix to local user?

From: Seth Mattinen (sethmrollernet.us)
Date: Sat Nov 07 2009 - 17:52:55 CST


Victor Duchovni wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 01:18:35AM -0800, Seth Mattinen wrote:
>
>> Have you tried a filesystem other than ext3 like Reiser or XFS? The
>> performance of ext3 really, really sucks if you have a lot of files in
>> one directory as a mail spool is bound to have.
>
> This is not so in most cases. Ext3 is just fine for Postfix.
>

The only reason I mention it is because I had a problem with ext3
performance on my Postfix systems. The array controller is a 3ware
9550SX with 256M cache+BBU. Switching to XFS helped my case.

~Seth