A couple of sources I found agree that "impetuses" is the correct plural
form. :-)

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Development
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 2006-05-16
07:43:22:

> >> On Tue, 16 May 2006 09:32:16 -0400, Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU> said:
>
> > We're a site who has been using IMAP with mbox style mail "folders"
> > for a decade. It's obvious that as we boost mail quotas, mbox "does
> > not scale". Thus, we are planning for a conversion to Cyrus, on
> > Linux.
>
> > [...]
>
> UF: ~100K mailboxes in central store, ~500K daily deliveries to
>     central store.  Some of that 100K are expired, over quota, etc.
>
> Four cyrus back-ends, Each back-end has about 700-800G in 10
> filespaces.  These are AIX boxen.
>
> So my filespaces have 50-100GB each on disk, with occupancy averaging
> between 1/3 and 1/2 TB, 3-7M files.
>
> Highly recommend filespace collocation.
>
> We figure on using AIX joural support in the future, but at the moment
> we're doing periodic (5-minute) file-list incrementals on messages
> that have been delivered / moved.  So we catch deletions on the daily
> incremental, but back up new messages quite a bit more quickly.
>
>
> Database is the bottleneck for me; I'm on old tech (SSA) so I've
> separated each back end on its' own server.  Before I did that I was
> not getting incrementals done in 24 hours, one of the impetuses
> (impetusii? imputecera... Hmm.) for the file-list incrementals.
>
>
>
> - Allen S. Rout