Author: Florian Laws Date: To: 'Marc Perkel', 'exim-users@exim.org' Subject: RE: [Exim] Large queue sizes - big directories - and Reiser File
System
Marc Perkel wrote: > Where Reiser really shines is on large directories with small files.
> Like what happens with big mail queues where some spammer has
> filled you
> up with thousands of bounce messages to non-existent email addresses.
> Reise can be a hundred times faster in those situations.
>
> I've seen people using all kinds of tricks here to reduce
> directory size and I'm sure that makes a big difference on ext2/ext3
> but if you go with reiser - the problem goes away.
Is split_spool_directory still useful then?
Or doesn't it make a difference, or is it even detrimental to performance?
