jz wrote: > * Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-15 21:16]: > > jz wrote: > > > In my experience it is not so slow. Deleting a message from a > > > 30000-message maildir takes 3 to 5 seconds at most on my 4 yrs old > > > celeron.
> > It's not the processor speed, but the filesystem that's the main issue > > here. You don't mention what filesystem (or OS) you're using here. > A little primitive test if anyone cares to read it. The machine > was celeron 540 w/ 256M memory with a relatively new IDE and a > SCSI oldie running FreeBSD 4.2-RC2. Task was opening a folder > with 30300 messages, roughly a bit over 120M in mbox format. > > 40G IBM IDE running ffs w/ softupdates enabled > maildir: 57 sec > mbox: 27 sec > old 2G barracuda (SCSI) w/ same fs parameters > maildir: 69 sec > mbox: 17 sec > > Machine was unloaded, though I think the numbers could vary for > several seconds in both directions if I repeated it several > times. Please keep in mind that this test is by no means > representative, it just gives a very rough comparison between > formats. I have no idea whatsoever what the result would be on a > decent SCSI based machine running Solaris with logging on or > Linux async mounted ext2 or whatever. YMMV. > > The beauty of maildir is faster deleting, updating, writing and > higher reliability. > > Maybe mutt power users or developers could shed more light on > the subject. The header caching patch seems to help a little for Maildirs, although it still seems to be a bit buggy. I'd say that the same folder would take a lot longer to open on ext2. -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . >
