If you're running ext3 on a 2.6.x system, there's supposed to be a tweak
you can turn on to speed up huge directories.

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 03:19, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 11:43 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> [snip]
> > I've also changed from Mbox format to maildir format.
> > 
> > I noticed a lot of overheads each time I delete messages. (One folder
> > has like 40,000 emails from Mail-lists)
> 
> Well, 40000 files in a subdirectory is quite a *lot* for most
> filesystems.  Something like ReiserFS is your best solution.
> (You do have /home in it's own partition, right?)
-- 
Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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