On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Ian P. Christian wrote: > It's not to do with mail size, it's to do with number of messages in any one > mailbox. The file system underlying it will also effect this. > One of my mailboxes currently has 10,000 emails in, and it's still not showing > any signs of becoming any slower.
As I mentioned, some accounts have hundreds of Mb of messages and a few have > 1Gb of email in them... > I imagine people's milage might vary with this kinda thing, but that post > suggested all he changed was the mail server, not the file system, or > anything else. (I presume he didn't - he installed them side by side) Exactly. Of course, I know, good performance begins with good hardware. Our servers all use SCSI disks (U160 or better), some are RAIDed, some not. > http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/ag.html > "The Cyrus IMAP Aggregator transparently distributes IMAP and POP mailboxes > across multiple servers. Unlike other systems for load balancing IMAP > mailboxes, the aggregator allows users to access mailboxes on any of the IMAP > servers in the system. " You could do something similar by NFS mounting maildirs across a cluster. -- -- [email protected] mailing list
