Lars Kneschke wrote: > Hello! > > I just did some tests. I wrote a simple php script, which connects to the > cyrus imap server and then to the dbmail imap server and measures the time > spending for the varios taks. > > Both servers are more or less equal, regarding memory and cpu performance. > > The cyrus server is in a better situation, because he has all informations > local avaiable. The dbmail server must authenticate to a external ldap > server and the emails are stored in a external mysql server. > > I'm doing following actions: > - authenticate as user > - sort a folder with more than 1000 messages > - fetch messages 10-30 > > The imapserver can do this in 0.1 seconds, the dbmail imap server needs 0.5 > seconds. Which is 5 time slower. The dbmail server spends most time with > fetching the headers.
I'm curious about your setup. Are you using imap's server-side sort here, or some kind of client side sorting? -- ________________________________________________________________ Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl
