From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 2 22:47:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A3B216A4CE for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 22:47:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd5mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA4D743D1F for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2004 22:47:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flowers@nekulturny.org) Received: from pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr1so-ser.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.177])2003))freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:40:44 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml10so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.80]) by pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I3F00CIHQZWOF90@pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:40:44 -0600 (MDT) Received: from procyon.nekulturny.org (S0106000c41b2b9a3.cg.shawcable.net [68.144.91.127]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0I3F0053WQZW02@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:40:44 -0600 (MDT) Received: from procyon.nekulturny.org (localhost.nekulturny.org [127.0.0.1]) i82MehR9075415 for ; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:40:44 -0600 (MDT envelope-from flowers@nekulturny.org) Received: (from flowers@localhost) by procyon.nekulturny.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:40:43 -0600 (MDT envelope-from flowers) Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 16:40:43 -0600 From: Danny MacMillan To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20040902224043.GA30143@procyon.nekulturny.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Max # of Files in a Directory? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 22:47:48 -0000 Hi. I googled for this but I couldn't find an answer. What is the largest number of files that can exist in a single directory in FreeBSD? I ask because I'm using courier-imap using a Maildir mailbox and I started seeing all kinds of errors when trying to copy more than 16383 messages into one of my folders there. I'm retrieving mail from a pop3 server using Outlook then copying them into my imap folder, also using Outlook. I guess my real question is, what is the bottleneck in this situation? Outlook? courier-imap? Or FreeBSD? -- Danny