On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Charles Marcus <char...@cocosolutions.com> wrote: >>> Dovecots indexes pretty much eliminate most of these issues, especially if >>> you use mdbox... >> Any alleged or potential difference in response time for a particular >> request does not help when the client croaks when there are hundreds of >> thousands of messages, in a folder. > That is the point. The indexes keep the client from croaking. > The difference in response time is absolutely amazing, and VERY real (not > alleged, and not potential).
But not on networked file systems. Once you scale above a certain size, networked and/or complex systems are unavoidable and all of those indexing advantages get nullified. ...Todd -- The total budget at all receivers for solving senders' problems is $0. If you want them to accept your mail and manage it the way you want, send it the way the spec says to. --John Levine ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list Courier-imap@lists.sourceforge.net Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
