On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Brian Candler wrote: >On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 10:12:44AM +0200, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote: >> file do make things slower than one operation, but once one probe is made, >> the VFS makes multiple accesses quick by cacheing. >I'm not sure that's true over NFS. There is very little caching you can do >client-side, given that any file could be altered by another client at any >time.
I agree on your point about NFS, it's not a fair assumption that the VFS will cache each entry. I encourage all users of Binc IMAP to report to the list if they experience a high load / low response time caused by the LIST command. :-) I do seriously not suspect anyone to notice anything from SELECT. Andy :-) -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | "It is better not to do something | than to do it poorly."
