Subj : Squish limitations
To   : All
From : Minh Van Le
Date : Fri Jan 25 2008 11:51 am

Hello All !

What are Squish's area, messages and size limitations ?

A RA_SUPPORT guy said JAM had a 10,000 area limit and unlimited messages.

Maximus has a Squish "Renum Max" keyword limit of 65535 (I think). Is this a 
limitation of Squish or Maximus ?

From Squish.Doc, it appears that Squish has the following limitations,

====================================================================
            Maximum areas: Unlimited (depending on available memory)
Maximum messages per area: 5,400 (16 bit), "almost any size" (32 bit)
     Maximum message size: 63k (16 bit), 256k (32 bit)
        Maximum area size: N/a
====================================================================

But the information is inconclusive / non definitive, as they're based on SQFix 
and <msgbuf>.

The only definitive information is regarding the maximum number of echo areas.

Here're the details I could garner, 

+---------------+
| Maximum areas |
+---------------+

Unlimited:

          Any number of EchoMail areas can be defined, limited by available
          memory.

+---------------------------+
| Maximum messages per area | 
+---------------------------+

5,400 msgs for 16 bit and "almost any size" for 32 bit: 

          While the 16-bit version of SQFIX is limited to areas of roughly
          5400 messages in size, SQFIX32 can rebuild message areas of
          almost any size.

+----------------------+
| Maximum message size |
+----------------------+

63k (16 bit) and 256k (32 bit):

               The defaults for the 16-bit versions of Squish (SQUISH and
               SQUISHP) are:

               BUFFERS   writebuf       outbuf         msgbuf
               Small     16k            16k            16k
               Medium    26k            40k            32k
               Large     57k            57k            63k

               The defaults for the 32-bit versions of Squish (SQ386 and
               SQ386P) are:

               BUFFERS   writebuf       outbuf         msgbuf
               Small     64k            64k            64k
               Medium    76k            128k           128k
               Large     128k           512k           256k

+-------------------+
| Maximum area size |
+-------------------+

I'll assume this will be the maximum Operating System file size.

Or ~332 mbs for 16 bit Squish (5,400 * 63k = 340,200 kbs). 

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