On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > Is there a way to accelerate the searches ?
>
> There's nothing to accelerate. The IMAP server runs on the NFS client. The
> mailbox runs on the NFS server. To have the client search a four gigabyte
> mailbox it is necessary to transfer four gigabytes of data from the server
> to the client. Data does not travel through hyperspace. One way or another
> it's got to get from the server to the client.
>
> Your network is probably unable to transfer all this data fast enough. NFS
> usually uses UDP. When the network is saturated, UDP packets will get
> dropped on the floor.
>
> Either beef up your network capacity, or get rid of four gigabyte searches.
...or quit using NFS, at least for that particular user.
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