[Dovecot] Re: 1.0-test21

[Timo Sirainen]

On 22.6.2004, at 12:01, Matthias Andree wrote:

> Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:
>
>> 0.99.10 indexes aren't too good, but I still find it a bit strange 
>> that
>> Cyrus takes something like 10x less load. I'd think most of it has to
>> do
>
> Load is the number of processes that are ready to run or running IIRC,
> hence, iowait contributes to the load without actually doing anything
> useful besides waiting for the hardware...

Yes, but I/O wait is exactly where the problem is. Your mails aren't 
coming any faster with 0.1% CPU load than with 99% CPU load if I/O is 
the bottleneck.
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