Re: Mailer for laptops (was: Re: new photos from my party!)
martin f krafft@lists.debian-laptop@Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:26:46 +0100:
> > It was unset (which means a default of 2), but now I set it to 1. Seems to
> > be a lot faster now, also at boot time. Thanks!
> you know, strange intuition tells me the opposite, but i guess it's
> a non-uniform curve and for low traffic, a lower value might actually
> be better...
>
Of course, deeper queue dirs are meant to accelerate things. But not on
low-load systems like mine. Scanning 256 directories containing less than
ten files is not useful, just a waste of blocks. :-/
# Unfortunately, hashing the incoming or deferred queue can actually
# slow the mail system down (mailq with an empty queue can take
# several seconds) so it should be done only in case of emergency.
Somehow /all/ directories are hashed in newer versions.. :-(
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