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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 01:00:16 -0600 (CST)
From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
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Subject: Re: Tuning for large outbound smtp queues 
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Mike, are you running UFS_DIRHASH on the machine in question?  If not,
that should help performance with large directories *greatly*.  I know
it's on by default in 5.x, but I'm not sure about 4.x.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack