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Re: Speeding up XFS

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Subject: Re: Speeding up XFS
From: Bruce Guenter <lists-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:22:30 -0600
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 10:07:53AM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 10:51:55AM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote:
> > However, as the filesystem fills and delivery concurrency increases,
> > the time required to list, read and delete the delivered files slows
> > down to unacceptable levels.  Is there anything I can do, settings
> > to modify, patches to try, to improve this behavior?
> 
> How large are the maildir's themselves (specifically how large are the
> new & cur directories)?

During the run of the above benchmark, they are typically small -- less
than a dozen entries in each one, with filenames of about 23 characters.
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