Auteur: Sheldon Hearn Date: À: Philip Hazel CC: Dave C., exim-users Sujet: Re: [Exim] split_spool_directory overhead
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 09:50:41 GMT, Philip Hazel wrote:
> Each queue runner scans the main directory first, to get a list of
> subdirectories. This list is then randomly sorted before it is used. I
> don't claim that Exim random numbers are very random, but I think they
> are good enough for this kind of purpose.
They're certainly "random enough" for very large queues. I typically
use 600 queue runners to flatten a queue of 400,000 messages, and I've
never seen any one directory lagging significantly behind the rest.
