On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Martin A. Brooks wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 10:02 +0100, Philip Hazel wrote: > > Using split_spool_directory helps > > As does, on ext2/3 partitions, turning directory indexing on. > > It'd be interesting to see if there was an advantage to having your mail > spool on reiserfs, and more interesting to see if that performance gain > (if any) would be worth the usually risk of reiserfs lunching itself and > it's been prone to do in the past.
Quite apart from queue length considerations, it is definitely the case that using the fastest, most efficient disk+file system that you can is beneficial. After all, Exim spends its time creating, writing, reading, and then removing files. It hammers the file system far more than the processor. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
