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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Ian P. Christian wrote: |
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> It's not to do with mail size, it's to do with number of messages in any one |
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> mailbox. The file system underlying it will also effect this. |
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> One of my mailboxes currently has 10,000 emails in, and it's still not showing |
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> any signs of becoming any slower. |
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As I mentioned, some accounts have hundreds of Mb of messages and a few |
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have > 1Gb of email in them... |
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> I imagine people's milage might vary with this kinda thing, but that post |
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> suggested all he changed was the mail server, not the file system, or |
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> anything else. (I presume he didn't - he installed them side by side) |
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Exactly. |
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Of course, I know, good performance begins with good hardware. Our servers |
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all use SCSI disks (U160 or better), some are RAIDed, some not. |
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> http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/ag.html |
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> "The Cyrus IMAP Aggregator transparently distributes IMAP and POP mailboxes |
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> across multiple servers. Unlike other systems for load balancing IMAP |
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> mailboxes, the aggregator allows users to access mailboxes on any of the IMAP |
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> servers in the system. " |
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You could do something similar by NFS mounting maildirs across a cluster. |
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