From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 15 20:28:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09FC837B401 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:28:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from psknet.com (kennedy.psknet.com [63.171.251.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3CB143FA3 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:28:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from troy@psknet.com) Received: from pool-141-152-70-95.roa.east.verizon.net ([141.152.70.95] helo=tws) by psknet.com with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.20) id 19ccxb-0001S1-EX; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 23:28:07 -0400 From: "Troy Settle" To: "'spork'" , Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 23:28:09 -0400 Message-ID: <002301c34b4a$484684b0$0100a8c0@tws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 In-Reply-To: <20030715203222.Q59500@green.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: RE: newfs options for large mail server (Maildir) X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 03:28:10 -0000 I've got about 50 domains with about 4500 accounts. 4200 of those are in my primary domain. Here's my old server: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on oldmail:/export 42G 6.5G 32G 17% 257068 10741330 2% /mnt And here's my new server (I think I went overboard on the inodes on this one): /dev/da1s1e 91G 4.1G 80G 5% 255756 95246066 0% /var2 HTH, -- Troy Settle Pulaski Networks http://www.psknet.com 540.994.4254 ~ 866.477.5638 Pulaski Chamber 2002 Small Business Of The Year > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of spork > Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 10:39 PM > To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org > Subject: newfs options for large mail server (Maildir) > > > Hi, > > I think the last time I had to think about this was when everyone ran > their own news server and you had to tweak the filesystem to make INN > perform acceptably... > > I'm migrating about 3,000 accounts to a new machine that will > be running > qmail/vpopmail, so there will be a directory for each domain, > each user, > each user's mailbox, etc. and since it's all Maildir instead > of spools, > there will be a ton of files. Hopefully the box will grow to a few > thousand more boxes if we're lucky. > > How should I go about determining the number of inodes and > the blocksize? > Does anyone have any general pointers? So far I've been > looking at some > postings by Joe Greco from the really old days and just > treating this the > same way I would have treated a news server, but I'd > appreciate some more > specific feedback from people running a similar > configuration. Even some > "df -i's" of similarly-sized boxes would give me a good start. > > Any input at all is welcome. > > Thanks, > > Charles > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >