Hello everybody, I have come across bincimap recently and was instantly attracted by its slim design.
I actually liked it so much that I attempted to migrate our cyrus imap-server to bincimap today. Unfornationally, after spending a couple hours on converting the cyrus database to something maildir-like, I was very disappointed by bincimaps poor performance on large folders. Is it really that slow or is it my fault? Opening a folder with ~12000 mails takes over 10min to complete and bincimap pretty much clogs up the machine while doing so. Below a `top`-snapshot of two parallel imap-sessions, pid 4336 is the one trying to open the large folder (12k messages), the other is another session, opening a smaller folder at the same time. (1-2k messages) PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 4336 imapbi 17 0 9392 9392 2120 R 90.6 3.6 3:30 bincimapd 4256 imapbi 14 0 48920 47M 2124 R 4.5 18.9 0:36 bincimapd For comparison: The same folder opens in ~15s when served by cyrus. I have used Mozilla 1.2.1 and mutt 1.2.5i for testing. bincimap is running on an AMD Athlon XP 1600+, 256mb, linux 2.4.19. All the maildirs are on a softraid-mirrored volume. The bincimap banner: * OK Welcome to Binc IMAP v1.0.24 (c) Copyright 2002, 2003 Andreas Aardal Hanssen at 2003-03-10T07:19:31+0100 Does anyone have a clue what could be causing the bad performance? I can hardly believe bincimap takes so long to process a dir of 12k files. What am I missing? :) best regards -- MW
