Re: New Server Hardware

Are your mailboxes in mbox format? Are those mailboxes quite big (500Mb+)?

You may benefit converting them to the mslc format.
Mdir would be good too for deletes, but I would test the initial mailbox 
open performance before converting everything.

*Nicolas Hatier, ing.* <[email protected] 
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On 2016-07-20 16:03, Karl Zander wrote:
> Looking at getting new hardware for our CGP server.   We have about 45 accounts mostly using Outlook with the MAPI connector.
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> The biggest issue we are looking to address is performance drops when someone deletes or moves a large number of messages through Outlook.  The server is barely useful if someone deletes several hundred messages at once like when emptying Trash.
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> Current server has 8 GB RAM.  3 x 250 GB drives in RAID 5.  (I think they are 10,000 RPM drives.)  Server runs Linux (Gentoo Linux) with a 4.1.2 kernel.  File system is ReiserFS.  Dual Xeon 1.86 Ghz CPUs
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> Plan to go to 16 GB RAM.  Quad CPU.  Staying with Gentoo Linux.
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> What are people using for disk drives and file systems?
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> --Karl