Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 23:28:09 -0400 From: "Troy Settle" <troy@psknet.com> To: "'spork'" <spork@fasttrackmonkey.com>, <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: newfs options for large mail server (Maildir) Message-ID: <002301c34b4a$484684b0$0100a8c0@tws> In-Reply-To: <20030715203222.Q59500@green.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com>
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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" >
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