Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 16:47:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>, <scanner@jurai.net>, Patrick <patrick@eahd.or.ug>, Daniel Harris <dannyboy@worksforfood.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: postfix && Maildir Message-ID: <20010619164535.A680-100000@zoraida.reyes.somos.net> In-Reply-To: <000b01c0f56c$6c065000$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Francisco Reyes > >Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 11:09 AM > >To: scanner@jurai.net > >Cc: Patrick; Daniel Harris; questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >Subject: Re: postfix && Maildir > > > > > >On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 scanner@jurai.net wrote: > > > > > >This is one of those near religious discussions. > >They both have issues. > >I have an old Solaris machine I am soon migratin to FreeBSD/Communigate > >Pro. One of the users had been leaving all his mails since sometime last > >year. His Mbox was 50MB+ when I discovered it. Every time he checked his > >mail, every 3 minutes, the utilization would jump to 50%+ and become > >unresponsive. > > > What your not taking into account is how incredibly much slower an old > Sparc 2 is than a modern system. It's not just the CPU that's 20 times > slower, even more importantly is how badly the Sparc 2 disk I/O is throttled > down. We are talking narrow SCSI and very few of the go-fast tricks that > exist on modern PC scsi cards, as well as the disks that shipped back then > had seek rates an order of magnitude slower. > > With a modern 1Ghz system and high speed disks the choice of mailbox format > won't impact system speed until you have thousands of them. I know it's an old machine. I inherited. :-( The new machine will be a 733 Mhz machine, but I do know that if I use mailbox many of my users will pile up their mail so i am going with maildir. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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