Re: Mass Mailout Performance Tips

[Michael T. Babcock]

How does a different filesystem, like ReiserFS help?  Hypothetically?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Petr Novotny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


> On 12 Sep 2000, at 20:10, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> 
> > I don't know if it sucks more than sendmail. Sendmail doesn't have a
> > todo queue, and it often has several processes spawning at once,
> > because of it's nature.
> 
> However, sendmail (by default) also has a single queue directory 
> (like todo is); it is hit by the very same problem (scandir(), open(), 
> unlink() taking *too*long* in large directories) as qmail.
> 
> If you get a big-todo patch for qmail, then 20000 messages in todo 
> queue are no problem...