Re: New Server Hardware
"Karl Zander" <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Jul 2016 09:37:01 -0400
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Mostly mbox with indexing enabled. Mailboxes are very large with some over 10 G. I limit each folder to 2 G. I forget about the mslc format. Have to check that out. --Karl On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:02:25 -0400 Nicolas Hatier <[email protected]> wrote: > >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] <mailto:[email protected]>> >Niversoft idées logicielles - http://www.niversoft.com > > > >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. >> >> 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. >> >> 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 >> >> >> Plan to go to 16 GB RAM. Quad CPU. Staying with Gentoo Linux. >> >> What are people using for disk drives and file systems? >> >> --Karl > ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[email protected]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[email protected]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[email protected]> Send administrative queries to <[email protected]>