On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Russell Nelson wrote:
> 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.
>
Ok, btw I can see that the value in conf-split is actually the number of
directories in /var/qmail/queue/local(remote,mess,info).
How do you know if lots of emails are getting queued, that I need to
increase the value in conf-split or install another instance of qmail?
By default, the value of conf-split is 23, and I don't know how much
queued emails can this handle.
