On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 10:34 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
This is the case OS : Gentoo Evo 1.4.6 Mailing List (~40,000 emails, 295MB) Office Emails (2088 emails, 533MB) /home is XFS Laptop Hard Drive (hdparm ~30MB/s) I migrated from Mbox format to MailDir format hoping that I would see faster performance from this. But the results are that the opposite is true.
As I said before, 40000 files in a directory is a *lot*. XFS is optimized for big files (like that 295MB mbox file), not scanning thru huge directories. Moving to ReiserFS may help. Of course, splitting that folder into subfolders (by year, or quarter, depending on the volume) will also help. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B "I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war." Marcus T Cicero
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