On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Dave Pifke wrote:
> In our case, this amounted to ~4,000 messages sitting in the queue after we
> disabled a batch of non-paying accounts (we chmod 0 their home directory to
> keep them from uploading files or serving web pages). Exim's efficiency drops
> significantly when the input spool is that big.
If you regularly have input spools that big, you might like to set the
split_spool_directory
option, which splits it up into 62 subdirectories. On some systems this
can make a substantial performance improvement.
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