Re: Nightmare with exim

Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> > All mail was delivered to the queue. The machine has 160M Ram and did not
> > swap or even use half of its available RAM. The problem is the queue
> > management....
>
> Well, as I said, I think that comes down to directory management, since
> Exim has nothing of its own. I was about to choose what to implement
> next when this discussion started. I have chosen to implement the
> split-spool feature, you will be pleased to hear.

When this issue came up on the linux-kernel, it was generally decided
that hashing directories in the application was far easier than trying
to design a general purpose "suited to large directories" algorithm. To
date, the only thing I know of that handles them reasonably well is
IRIX's xfs.

-Dom