On Friday 20 March 2009 02:52:42 Brandon Hilkert wrote: > As I mentioned, we're using the XFS system for the queue, does that provide > any additional benefit, or would ext3 perform the same? Keep in mind, we > will be dealing with 1,000,000 piece mailouts during a session. My findings > were that XFS might handle more of the small html email files better, > especially if they get backed up in a deferred queue for some reason, is > this true?
I don't want to make an assumption whether this has anything to do with the problem. But although I haven't used XFS for a long time on production systems, I remember it was not recommended for fast access to many small files, but contrarily for few large files, e.g. media files for streaming. Using XFS for a mail spool for performance reason is new to me. Rainer
