On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 13:56 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > 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) ---- anything other than uw-imapd w/ mbox is an improvement. Craig
