I am also using XFS and while it isn't zippy moving thousands of messages, it will work. I think I've been up to 9000+ messages but I don't know if I've ever passed 10,000. Even with XFS manipulating such large directories can be tedious. Lots of file hanlding tools just throw up their hands and admit defeat.
Sam, do you have any suggestions on what configurations can be used to better handle maildir's for packrats like me and apparently Jon? Thanks, David. On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Juri Haberland wrote: > Jon Nelson wrote: > > I'm using the version of courier-imap that comes with 0.41. > > > > I have been experimenting with a few things, and have noticed that imapd > > is almost unbearably slow when moving (actually, COPY 'ing) messages to > > a Maildir that is 'large'. By 'large' I qualify that to mean roughly > > 9000 messages. I am running under Linux 2.4.20, and use the ext3 > > filesystem, although I've run my experiments on both the IBM jfs and the > > ext3 filesystems. The filesystem is not the issue here, however. > > Ext3 as a filesystem is most certainly an issue if it comes to many > entries in one directory. Here a quote of a recent message by Andreas > Dilger, one of the ext3 developers on the ext3 mailing list: > > > Yes, you will see this as a significant increase in system time for > > directory access. The stock ext2/3 directory code doesn't work so well > > past about 5000 entries in a single directory (it survives up to about > > 10000 entries, but basically dies after that. > > I don't know about JFS, but I use XFS and it works quite nice. > > Regards, > Juri > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > courier-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
