On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:10:10 -0800, Mark Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 24, 2006, at 11:24 AM, phil wrote: > >> On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:09:47 -0800, Mark Edwards >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Roundcube seems to have some difficulty dealing with large mailboxes >>> (large meaning thousands of messages). It can manage indexing one of >>> these, but if I try to actually show a message in a large mailbox, it >>> basically hangs. >>> >>> When this happens, the browser just sits there waiting for a reply, >>> and I can do a 'top' on the server and watch the apache process just >>> eat up memory until it finally dies. >>> >>> It seems that Roundcube is digging through the mail and not releasing >>> memory in some way, which becomes a problem as the mailbox size gets >>> large. At least that's my theory. >>> >>> Does anyone else observe this? This is with Apache 1.3.34, PHP >>> 5.1.2, MySQL 4.1.18 and Cyrus 2.2.12, running on FreeBSD 4.11p14. >> >> Is your SMTP server on the same box? If so, turn off caching in >> the config, that helped me out. For record, I have ~1100 messages >> in my Roundcube folder, and switching from/to this directory seems >> quick. Oh, and I"m on Freebsd 6.0 with mySQL 4.x, Apache2, Dovecot >> 0.9 >> >> If that doesn't help - what does /var/log/maillog say when this is >> occuring? > > Caching is off, and I don't see what it has to do with SMTP. Its not > switching to/from the directory that causes the problem.
Yep, I meant IMAP, in I would assume IMAP was hanging up trying to parse through a huge mbox file...but again, if Squirrel doesn't display that, then that's not it. P
