Dovecot mbox & other programs

Pali Rohár pali.rohar at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 12:48:12 UTC 2015


On Monday 08 June 2015 02:45:52 Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> IMHO ... Maildir is a better format.

Really? I do not think so! Having half of million (small) files in one
directory is killer... which eats caches and slow down access time.
Even listing such directory (without reading file contents) consume lot
of CPU cycles...

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Pali Rohár
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