On Thursday 07 April 2005 19:51, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote: > Yes, or each file could be stat'ed when the maildir is scanned, and this > size could be used. It still doesn't solve the load problem, though. > Stat'ing 19k files in my qmail folder takes me 2.5 minutes. My INBOX takes > 10 seconds with 1500 messages.. Compared to the single stat of mbox, > Maildir really can't compete.. :-/
I don't know where you get those enormous times from... (or what exactly a stat is, or why you're using it) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/vpopmail/domains/osss.net/cshobe/.maildir # time du -h --summarize .Mailing\ Lists.Software.Qmail/ 43M .Mailing Lists.Software.Qmail/ real 0m0.047s user 0m0.012s sys 0m0.035s [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/vpopmail/domains/osss.net/cshobe/.maildir # ls -lR .Mailing\ Lists.Software.Qmail/ | wc -l 8507 Cheers, -- Casey Allen Shobe | SeattleServer, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | cell 425-443-4653 http://www.seattleserver.com Please send any responses to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
