From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 23 9:15:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailout05.sul.t-online.de (mailout05.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B05F37B422 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 09:15:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from D.Rock@t-online.de) Received: from fwd03.sul.t-online.de by mailout05.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 152bI5-0001k4-04; Wed, 23 May 2001 18:15:17 +0200 Received: from server.rock.net (340029380333-0001@[62.155.178.122]) by fmrl03.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 152bIZ-27dkcSC; Wed, 23 May 2001 18:15:47 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by server.rock.net (8.11.2/8.11.2/Rock) id f4NAYLK08027; Wed, 23 May 2001 12:34:21 +0200 (MEST) From: "D. Rock" X-Authentication-Warning: server.rock.net: nobody set sender to rock@rock.net using -f To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Subject: Re: technical comparison Message-ID: <990614061.3b0b922d5710b@rock.dyn.dhs.org> Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 12:34:21 +0200 (MEST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200105220411.f4M4BDX101825@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <3B0A8DD5.9A38449B@mitre.org> <3B0B089A.AA97F518@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <3B0B089A.AA97F518@newsguy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.3 X-Originating-IP: 193.158.252.43 X-Sender: 340029380333-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Zitiere "Daniel C. Sobral" : > Note, though, that there is some very recent perfomance improvement on > very large directories known as dirpref (what changed, actually, was > dirpref's algorithm). This is NOT present on 4.3-RELEASE, though it > _might_ have since been committed to stable. I don't think dirpref should help in this case. IIRC the dirpref patches change the algorithm choosing the cg of subdirectories relative to their parent. Since postmark by default only uses one directory, there should be no benefit. -- Daniel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message