Dear Earl

Please email me the script to create the hashed dir structure.

Thanks in advance.

Peter

At 07:18 PM 5/15/98 -0400, Earl Sammons wrote:
>Peter,
>
>I think most of your questions have been covered but I'll give you my 2
>cents from experience.  I run a mail server for an isp w/ over 4k mail
>spools.  One thing that helped us out that both cucipop (for sure) and
>qpopper (so I'm told)  will let you do is to hash /var/spool/mail so as
>not to have so many files in one dir.  In other words user "foo" would
>have mail in /var/spool/mail/f/o/ .  Other than that: 
>
>Don't skimp on ram, go for 512MB
>Don't skimp on controller, get Buslogic
>
>I have a script to create the hashed dir structure.  Let me know if you
>decide to go that route and I'll send it your way.
>
>Good luck!
>
>--earl
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>On Fri, 15 May 1998, Peter Chen wrote:
>
>>-  Now am I too ambitious?
>>-  Can a Red Hat Linux box handle the load of a heavy mail server serving
>>4000+ clients?
>>-  Can a stock Red Hat 5.0 sendmail 8.8.7 handle so many users, for
>>example, more than 2000 concurrent SMTP connections? Or should I recompile
>>the sendmail?
>>-  Should I patch kernel 2.0.33 with file-descriptor patch and recompile a
>>new kernel?
>>-  Can a Pentium II 233Mhz, Intel 440LX chipset, 256MB RAM, Asustek SC875
>>UW SCSI controller, two IBM Ultrastar 9GB UW SCSI hard disks do the job?
>>
>
>
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