Sorry I haven't been able to reply as our system has been very slow with lots of calls going on right now.
I'll take a look at the size of the INBOXES to see if that's the issue. What would be the tool/process for converting from mbx to mix? Thanks again for all the replies, Troy -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] on behalf of Mark Crispin Sent: Tue 3/16/2010 12:34 PM To: Bob Atkins Cc: Mabry Tyson; UW IMAP Software Interest List Subject: Re: [Imap-uw] slow IMAP connection Although I agree with Bob's conclusion (use mix format), I think that it overstates the issue to say that "mbx format is only marginally better" than mbox". mbx is a major jump up from mbox, and is handled much better than mbox. mbx scaled very well for the demands of 1996 when it was designed; it's just that we no longer live in that world. mix was designed in 2006 to be as much of a jump from mbx as mbx is a jump from mbox. mix is the ONLY choice for a mailbox >2GB in size; mbx and mbox will not work at all. Although mbx will work with a mailbox of 40,000+ message, it would be painful; and mbox would be unusable. I think that a way of looking at it is that if mbox is a "1", then mbx is a "10" and mix is a "100". On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Bob Atkins wrote: > The only way to fix the slow I/O problem, especially with large mail > boxes is to convert to mix format. mbx format is only marginally better > than mbox from a performance standpoint. This is from my personal > experience of having mail boxes with 40,000+ messages and >2GB in size. > Today's users have no idea how much space their mail is consuming, nor > would they care if they did. Our only option as administrators is to > implement the fastest and most scalable solution that we can. We > converted our systems to mix format about a year ago and oh what a > different it made. Much happier users and even happier admins ;-) -- Mark -- http://panda.com/mrc Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote. _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list [email protected] http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list [email protected] http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
