On Tue 1999-07-13 (16:50), Russell Nelson wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> > Wow. Looks like I do :-) Can you explain what it does?
>
> It modifies various programs to use hashed todo and intd directories.
> This allows you to inject mail faster than qmail-send can deal with
> it. Otherwise, you end up with really big directories with more than
> 1,000 files. Once that happens, the kernel spends more and more time
> locked reading/writing those directories. Also, if you're injecting
> 100,000 messages all at once, make your conf-split bigger -- more like
> 231 than the default 23.
When does it make sense to apply the big-todo patch and increase the size of
conf-split?
Is there any ballpark threshhold where these changes become useful?
Would it hurt performance in any way if I made these changes on a relatively
low volume system?
Thanks.
> -russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://crynwr.com/~nelson
- Keith
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