On 3/5/07, Pawel Tecza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So, it's a question to the admins of big mail systems with
> tens of thousands of users.  What filesystem do you use?

Jay Lee already answered that question when he wrote:

> Since I subscribe to some heavy traffic lists like Fedora, Ubuntu and LKML
> I sure do (this is a RHEL4 x86_64, dual Opteron, 6gb ram , hardware RAID5,
> ext3 based Maildirs).  I've gotten up to 50k messages before without issue
> except that I had to disable FAM support.  It seems FAM and/or Gamin in
> conjunction with dnotify will max out around 5k messages.  It dies very
> badly too, it starts chewing up 100% of the CPU and does nothing until I
> reset imapd.

So, ext3 and systems administration it is.

Thank you to both Sam and Jay for your responses. My courier choice
was made purely on technical analysis, but with so much FUD out there
it does make one ask questions occassionally.

Thanks,

Lisa.

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