Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 11:57 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
Craig White wrote:
FWIW - I didn't realize how much of a performance dog uw-imap was until I installed cyrus-imapd - and this was on my own mail server where I am the only user.
What kinds of tasks were dog slow? Could it be because your mailboxes were in the default compatible-but-horribly-slow mbox format?
yes indeedy - default compatible-but-horribly-slow mbox format would be an accurate description.
When we changed from mbox to mbx mailbox format, we saw much improved performance too (better file locking and seek-times primarily). I would venture to guess the improvement in the same ballpark as when you switched to cyrus-imapd (which uses MailDir format, I believe, which has similar benefits)
-- Rex
