Jon Nelson wrote: > I'm using the version of courier-imap that comes with 0.41. > > I have been experimenting with a few things, and have noticed that imapd > is almost unbearably slow when moving (actually, COPY 'ing) messages to > a Maildir that is 'large'. By 'large' I qualify that to mean roughly > 9000 messages. I am running under Linux 2.4.20, and use the ext3 > filesystem, although I've run my experiments on both the IBM jfs and the > ext3 filesystems. The filesystem is not the issue here, however.
Ext3 as a filesystem is most certainly an issue if it comes to many entries in one directory. Here a quote of a recent message by Andreas Dilger, one of the ext3 developers on the ext3 mailing list: > Yes, you will see this as a significant increase in system time for > directory access. The stock ext2/3 directory code doesn't work so well > past about 5000 entries in a single directory (it survives up to about > 10000 entries, but basically dies after that. I don't know about JFS, but I use XFS and it works quite nice. Regards, Juri ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
