-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: > On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, mike ledoux wrote: > > my inbox has 23481 messages in it right now in a 495166727 byte > > mbox--performance is fine with mbox ... > > Really? Wow. Is that a single-user system where the whole mailbox can > fit into RAM, or something? One of our customers has been hitting numbers > like that, and performance sucks. It appears to be a combination of mailbox > format (mbox), size of mailboxes (multiple mailboxes in the 100+ MB range) > IMAP server implementation (UW), and client software behavior (MS Outlook > and friends), but whatever the exact cause, it appears to be pathological.
Ran into this problem, or something like it. Try making sure /tmp is large enough to contain multible copies of your larger mailboxes. Or if the system is busy, make sure it's large enough to hold numerous copies of larger mailboxes. I'd suggest 1GB or larger. UW seems to like to write temporary copies of mailboxes to /tmp. We ran into a problem where it would fill up /tmp and barf, causing a variety of weird problems. HTH - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8KfTGdjdlQoHP510RAjFRAJ9MoKlPldJmYzjkrSZZBbyXGyHr8ACgook1 LFK1XxrRwk1ZunzNn+uKp9M= =o/AV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
