How come the conf-split should be prime?
I've read it and (unfortunately) repeatedly ignored.
And does it hamper things greatly by it not being so (yet)?
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Michael Boyiazis
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter van Dijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 2:22 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: high volume server configurations
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 02:12:14PM -0600, Sid Wilroy wrote:
> > The reason I have 200 in the conf-split so 200 sub queue
> directories will be
> > created to increases file access time by reducing inode
> table seek time.
>
> conf-split should be a *prime* number.
>
> Also, a large conf-split only makes sense if you have more than 20.000
> messages *in your queue*. This won't usually happen.
>
> > I also went ahead a made the file system of /var/qmail/queue xfs..
>
> That might be a good idea indeed. It also takes away most of the
> reasons for a big conf-split.
>
> Greetz, Peter.
>
