Re: [exim] split_spool_directory or reiser filesystem?

On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 07:18:18 MST, Marc Perkel wrote:

> Of of the places that reiser really helps a lot is the ability to find
> and open files in very large directories. After reading some of the
> messages here - 1,000,000 spooled files - that I thought I'd mention
> this as something that maybe someone might try.

I'm using FreeBSD's UFS_DIRHASH kernel option, which allocates KVM for
use in hashing directories with sizes exceding a tunable threshold.

The issue raised in this thread isn't operating system performance, but
rather the strategy used by Exim queue runners.

Ciao,
Sheldon.