On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, wyq wrote: > > >No, its to handle a greater number of spool files. Have you ever tried to > >stock more than 40-50000 files inside a directory ? FS performance suck. > > > I wonder if there are many users (for example 10,000 users) under one > domain, > then the performance would slow down because of the FS performance. > Maybe we can make file index to accelerate the perfomance? > And another problem is if we apply xmail to implement huge system with > about > 1,000,000 or more users, how about the performance with "mailuser.tab" and > store > with file system? ( Consider load balance, we need stroe all the infomation > on network server).
Having 10000 users inside a domain won't be that bad because you will have directories that are almost static. While the spool is an highly changeble thing. And "sane" file systems already use indexes, by splitting you're giving the FS tips. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
