Benjamin de los Angeles Jr. writes:
> On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Russell Nelson wrote:
>
> > Benjamin de los Angeles Jr . writes:
> > > What's the maximum number of messages that can be queued in Qmail?
> >
> > There is no limit, however, there is only one level of hashing in the
> > queue. Depending on your filesystem, the practical limit may be as
> > low as 10,000,000, once you have increased conf-split.
> >
>
> I'm using ext2 fs, and where can conf-split be found? How can you
> know the maximum limit for the hash for every file system?
conf-split is one of the compile-time configuration files in the
qmail-1.03 source directory. There is no "maximum" limit, only what
has proven to be a reasonable size given the performance of the file
system on the available hardware. That is, in my experience, about
3,000 for ext2 fs. You *can* go a lot higher, however the directory
access time starts to dominate any file operations, since it searches
linearly. 3,000 is about the most files you want in any directory
which is going to be frequently accessed.
If you've got that much mail queued up, and the machine still has
extra resources to deliver more mail, you could run another instance
of qmail in, say, /var/qmail2.
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