On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:22:55AM -0500, Joel Nimety wrote: > Janne Peltonen wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:01:03AM +0100, Simon Matter wrote: > >>> This might be a problem, since we have some users that really have 10000 > >>> messages in their INBOX. Although it seems that Cyrus itself cannot cope > >>> with this either... in our current, non-clustering setup. But then, it's > >>> an old version. > >> Interesting, I have some folders with ~100'000 messages and cyrus handles > >> it very nice. Did you say you have a problem with 10'000 messages in a > >> mailbox? > > I didn't inspect the case at all closely, but yes, there was one user > > with some 10'000 messages in one folder experiencing slowdown, and after > > I suggested him to clean up his INBOX, there were no more complaints. > > But it was (is) really an old version of Cyrus on a very busy server. > What fs are you using? ext3 without special flags whould choke on > 10-20k message per directory. ResierFS (and maybe XFS? JFS?) handle > large numbers of files per directory >20K just fine Solaris 8 ufs. Shouldn't have any trouble with that # of files per dir. But thanks for the info abt ext3, might be useful if we decide against gfs on the future system - any references? --Janne ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
