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Subject: Re: Some questions on postfix, SUMMARY
From: Brad Knowles (blkskynet.be)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2000 - 02:53:54 CST

At 6:13 PM -0500 2000/3/3, Wietse Venema wrote:

> For this application of a million mails in, say, an hour, it would
> make sense to have multi-message queue files. If Postfix could
> handle multi-message files, then it could speed up very much because
> most of the time now is spent in create/rename/remove overhead.

        Granted, a timecaf-like method of handling queue file storage
would virtually eliminate synchronous metadata operations (which
almost seems to have become my mantra), but it seems to me that he
needs to start with a design that makes the maximum use of what speed
postfix can give him today, and then once he's reached that point, we
can worry about what it would take to go beyond that. You can't run
before you walk.

> Not that I will be able to afford one, but what's the ballpark
> price for such things nowadays?

        Funny you should mention that -- I never saw any prices, and I
wasn't about to ask. ;-) 

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