31 Jan
2008
31 Jan
'08
1:26 a.m.
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Gabriel Millerd wrote:
Making a perl script to insert 35k emails using dovecot deliver doesn't impact my under resourced machines and I work with spam/(false|ham|queue) system with mail::imapclient automation and the script flies through thousands of messages on the hour without notice.
Did you then delete those 35K messages in one fell swoop? I wouldn't be surprised if XFS's performance were significantly different between these exaggerrated extremes:
repeat 35000 times: { create a file, delete a file }
and
create 35000 files, delete 35000 files
Best, Ben
Forgot to ask: Are you using XFS?