Terry: > > > > For those wondering why we can't just commit to only using the > provided > > utilities to manipulate queue files, it's because we are giving > individual > > users the ability to view messages that were placed in the hold queue > and > > release them up to 30 days after the messages were originally placed > there. > > While we could do this without moving the files out the hold queue, > if we > > were to leave them there, the number of files in the one directory > would > > cause us to take a performance hit all on it's own. > > I do this right now with postsuper and postcat. It works fine although > I > haven't tried it on the scale you're talking about. > > If the number of files/directory is an issue, hash_queue_depth should > limit > the number of files in a single directory.
Thanks for the tip on hash_queue_depth... I hadn't run into that feature yet. That would have resolved my issue right there, except that then it would be a tricky the quarantine system to figure out which messages it has logged into it's database or not. Right now it copies the messages out of the hold queue one by one and then deletes them out of the hold queue with postsuper. Curtis > > Terry > > >
