On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 14:16:28 -0600 Michael Brutman <brutman@???> wrote:
> I'm unclear about split_spool_directory - is then intention to split the
> spool files across multiple hard drives, or is there a bottleneck in the
> filesystem code that limits concurrent accesses to the directory. (i.e.:
> Is it disk performance or a kernel locking problem that this setting gets
> around.)
large numbers of files in a directory will _significantly_ slow access to
the directory. split_spool_directory uses a simple trick to keep the
numbers of files in a single directory in the spool down to a reasonable
size.
richard
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