On Monday 28 February 2005 14:26, sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i came up with the number by totalling the mailbox sizes of a 3000 user
mail system, and then dividing by the total number of messages in these
mailboxes. this generated a number around 13k average message size.
i had to
Am 2005-02-27 18:19:45, schrieb sean finney:
can't help but chime in here :)
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:22:30AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
Not every situation warrants using maildir, it uses a large number of
inodes, is slow to scan (yes, mbox isn't very good either),
Mailbox is MUCH slower
Am 2005-02-27 20:19:09, schrieb Ron Johnson:
Sure, for those *20* GB mbox files.
Who has 20 GByte mailboxes ? - It is realy braindamaged...
Even on xfs, open a 20 GByte Mailbox will eat up all resources
on the System
Greetings
Michelle
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On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 09:25 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
Am 2005-02-27 20:19:09, schrieb Ron Johnson:
Sure, for those *20* GB mbox files.
Who has 20 GByte mailboxes ? - It is realy braindamaged...
The same person with the 2GB mbox that started this thread, after
s/he neglected it for
Am 2005-02-28 02:43:45, schrieb Ron Johnson:
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 09:25 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
Who has 20 GByte mailboxes ? - It is realy braindamaged...
The same person with the 2GB mbox that started this thread, after
s/he neglected it for a few more months.
:-/
Oh yes, the
On Monday 28 February 2005 01:51, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 18:19 -0500, sean finney wrote:
[snip]
figuring the average email is about 13-15k, i believe an ext2/ext3
That seems awfully huge. In my (Maildir) archive of d-u, the
average size is 4,959 bytes. Of course, there
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 22:55 +0100, David Schmitt wrote:
On Monday 28 February 2005 01:51, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 18:19 -0500, sean finney wrote:
[snip]
figuring the average email is about 13-15k, i believe an ext2/ext3
That seems awfully huge. In my (Maildir) archive
can't help but chime in here :)
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:22:30AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
Not every situation warrants using maildir, it uses a large number of
inodes, is slow to scan (yes, mbox isn't very good either),
inefficient at storing large number of very small files (due to block
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 18:19 -0500, sean finney wrote:
can't help but chime in here :)
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:22:30AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
[snip]
figuring the average email is about 13-15k, i believe an ext2/ext3
That seems awfully huge. In my (Maildir) archive of d-u, the
average
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 06:51:32PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 18:19 -0500, sean finney wrote:
recent versions of kernel/ext2/ext3 have built-in dirent hashing, which
cuts heavily on the many-files penalty. another benefit of maildir
is that when you modify a single
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 11:54 +1100, Paul Hampson wrote:
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 06:51:32PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 18:19 -0500, sean finney wrote:
recent versions of kernel/ext2/ext3 have built-in dirent hashing, which
cuts heavily on the many-files penalty.
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 06:51:32PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
Of course, all of these factors depend on the file system used. I am
confident somebody could point out a file-system that eliminates many
Reiserfs, of course.
You meant XFS, right?
(Sorry, couldn't be helped. :)
--
Glenn
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 20:54 -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 06:51:32PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
Of course, all of these factors depend on the file system used. I am
confident somebody could point out a file-system that eliminates many
Reiserfs, of course.
You
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 06:51:32PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
That seems awfully huge. In my (Maildir) archive of d-u, the
average size is 4,959 bytes. Of course, there are no html mails.
Though, even in my Evolution list archive, where there are many
more html-mails, the average size is
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 22:26 -0500, sean finney wrote:
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 06:51:32PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
That seems awfully huge. In my (Maildir) archive of d-u, the
average size is 4,959 bytes. Of course, there are no html mails.
Though, even in my Evolution list archive, where
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