>> On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 14:38:44 -0700 (PDT), 
>> Troy Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

T> We have a fairly ongoing problem with some of the users at work who
T> don't seem capable of cleaning out their INBOX, so they end up with
T> 100MB mail spools with 7000 messages in them.

T> I had theorized that chunking over the 100MB mailbox was slow, and that
T> using a maildir would be much faster, and it is except that with that
T> many messages, the OS slows down.

   That's a political problem rather than a technical one; a faster
   filesystem won't help because a bigger INBOX will put you back where you
   were.

   We ran into this several years ago when we started using NFS drives to
   share files on a 380-user intranet.  The drives would fill, we'd nag
   people to clean their stuff up, and a day later they'd be full again.
   The only fix was to put all files older than (say) 6 months into a
   compressed archive elsewhere.

   If someone misses the file, they call and ask for it to be restored.
   Since it's sitting in a compressed archive, it's lots faster than
   getting a file back from tape.

   If a few people from the same division complain, my boss gets together
   with their boss and says, "For X dollars we'll buy Y Gbytes of space for
   your use only, it's automatically backed up for you every night, and YOU
   decide what to do when it fills up."

-- 
Karl Vogel
ASC/YCOA, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433, USA
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The genius of you Americans is that you never make any clear-cut stupid
moves, only complicated stupid moves that leave us scratching our heads
wondering if we might possibly have missed something.
                                                --Gamel Abdel Nasser

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