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Re: Scalable Mail solution with NAS
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon () gollum esys ca>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:05:08 -0700
[ This belongs in comp.mail.misc. ]
"Sebastien" == Sebastien Berube <sberube () zeroknowledge com> writes:
Sebastien> 2. The more mailboxes you have, the slower the entire Sebastien> popping process will be. The reason is very simple, Sebastien> each pop process will spawn and read your mailbox Sebastien> directory. You have a highly deficient pop server implementation. The fork-on-connect model is dead. A well written threaded server can handle tens of thousands of concurrent connections. Sebastien> /export/mailboxes/j/o/h/n/johndoe.mbox That just moves the problem around. Traversing those intermediate directories isn't exactly a light-weight set of operations. Sebastien> Although this example is not good in the case where you Sebastien> accept usernames with 3 or less characters. A proper hashing algorithm would solve that. --lyndon
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- RE: Scalable Mail solution with NAS, (continued)
- RE: Scalable Mail solution with NAS Jason Lewis (Feb 24)
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- Re: Scalable Mail solution with NAS Brian (Feb 24)
- Re: Scalable Mail solution with NAS Kris S. Amundson (Feb 24)
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- Re: Scalable Mail solution with NAS Sebastien Berube (Feb 24)
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- Re: Scalable Mail solution with NAS Jim Mercer (Feb 24)
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