Re: Large spool mboxes => slow?

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Gregory Hicks wrote:

> 
> > [Hugh Sasse wrote:]
> > OK, I think we only have c0t0d0s* on that machine, so I'm a bit stuck.
> > I thought that might be the case.
> 
> Hugh:
> 
> If you have the Sun PCI SCSI board, that comes with two SCSI controllers...
> 
> In any case, try and get a second drive for the temp drop dir.

That's in progress, as far as possible...
> 
> > Enabling server mode is not possible given some types of client (from 
> > my reading of the docs).  I don't know all the clients people use, so 
> > I must err on the side of caution.  Or is that paranoid in 2006?
> 
> I have to state that this is not the be-all, end-all of clients served,
> but we have a quite diverse user population here.  I have found - via
> the school of hard knocks - that the only client that the current
> qpopper does NOT support is the old Z-Mail.  (I finally, 10 years after
> the fact, got these users to upgrade to a more modern MUA...  Z-Mail
> went out of business in 1996...)

that's encouraging.  I can't see anything logged about the MUA, but then
IIRC it's not part of the SMTP or POP protocols to declare it, so I wouldn't
see it logged.
> 
> Now I have to preface this with a "YMMV", but all 'modern' pop3 clients
> should work with the current qpopper - including Outlook (even though I
> would not wish this client on my worst enemy...)

And if it blows up I tell them we need a new machine to handle the load
with server disabled.  ;-)
> 
        [...]
> > Thanks.  I'm not au fait with disk internals, and thought that some 
> > disks may have many heads, not just to read one cylinder at a time, 
> > but possible several.  Access time is a market (selective) pressure
> > on disks.
> 
> Well, they DO have multiple heads, but only one arm that these heads
> are mounted on.  Best bet is to get multiple spindles.

Agreed. Thanks.
> 
> Oh well...
> 
> Regards,
> Gregory Hicks
> 
        Hugh