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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