On 11/24/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You have fixed a short term problem but forgot about long term
> consequences.
>
> Email system is a delete/insert/update/select heavy system, if you have
> lots of users. Going with innodb you get concurrent reads + writes. I
> can do most of the dbmail-util cleanup functions without having to lock
> tables. A user can be downloading/updating delete flags of 50K pop3
> messages via dbmail-pop3d and I don't have to worry about it locking up
> the system and slowing inserts other updates (pop/imap users) to a
> turtle pace. Can't say the same for myisam.

Good point. Im starting to look into moving to innodb tables, but will
save the actual upgrade until a server upgrade in Jan/Feb of next year
:) . Any good references to start here?

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