-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 03 June 2003 06:24, Gerard Beekmans wrote: > For a project I'm involved with I'm thinking at setting up anonymous access > to its mailinglists using IMAP. The problem is that I'm noticing quite the > poor performance using large Maildir mailboxes. Large as in 40 (fourty) > thousand and more messages. It takes a while to load that mailbox into a > client.
have you tried using a file system optimized for directories with tons of tiny files? if not, i'd suggest trying it out on a ReiserFS partition since this is where Reiser is designed to shine. or even XFS, which is better for file serving than ext2/3. - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE: The 'K' is for 'kick ass' http://www.kde.org http://promo.kde.org/3.1/feature_guide.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+3maC1rcusafx20MRAqFeAKCM2xkgJG3V4VMOWB41I0aoDWc5zwCgrcAM FrGfsBQ1YbxdxobUObnMLdY= =/xJL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
