Re: Really slow IMAP performance

2018-02-26 Thread Tanstaafl
On Sat Feb 24 2018 17:01:01 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time), @lbutlr wrote: > On 2018-02-24 (07:14 MST), Aki Tuomi wrote: >> >> https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat > > That didn't show up when searching wiki2 for "Migration" :/ Don't search

Re: Really slow IMAP performance

2018-02-24 Thread Joseph Tam
On Sat, 24 Feb 2018, Neil Jerram wrote: My INBOX file has 22990 messages. Is the slowness that I am seeing definitely expected for an mbox of that size? (It may also be relevant that the HDD it's stored on is pretty old now, and has been known to report SMART errors...) Yeah, a copy of that

Re: Really slow IMAP performance

2018-02-24 Thread @lbutlr
On 2018-02-24 (07:14 MST), Aki Tuomi wrote: > > https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat That didn't show up when searching wiki2 for "Migration" :/ -- "...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well-preserved

Re: Really slow IMAP performance

2018-02-24 Thread @lbutlr
On 2018-02-24 (07:04 MST), Neil Jerram wrote: > > My INBOX file has 22990 messages. Is the slowness that I am seeing > definitely expected for an mbox of that size? (It may also be relevant > that the HDD it's stored on is pretty old now, and has been known to >

Re: Really slow IMAP performance

2018-02-24 Thread Neil Jerram
Aki Tuomi writes: > Yes. You deffo are looking at several reasons for slowness. > > I can only recommend moving into maildir or sdbox format, and probably new > HDD too. > > https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Sync here is example of 'converting' > between mailbox

Re: Really slow IMAP performance

2018-02-24 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Den 24. feb. 2018 15:04, skrev Neil Jerram: > Aki Tuomi writes: > >>> On 24 February 2018 at 15:47 Neil Jerram wrote: > > [...] Feb 24 10:24:24 arudy dovecot[1712]: imap(neil): Warning: Transaction log file

Re: Really slow IMAP performance

2018-02-24 Thread Neil Jerram
Aki Tuomi writes: >> On 24 February 2018 at 15:47 Neil Jerram wrote: [...] >> > Feb 24 10:24:24 arudy dovecot[1712]: imap(neil): Warning: >> > Transaction log file >> > /home/neil/dovecot-mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log was locked >> > for 98

Re: Really slow IMAP performance

2018-02-24 Thread Aki Tuomi
> On 24 February 2018 at 15:47 Neil Jerram wrote: > > > Aki Tuomi writes: > > > On 24 February 2018 at 12:45 Neil Jerram < n...@ossau.homelinux.net> > > wrote: > > > > Please could you help me to understand and fix why my dovecot IMAP > >

Re: Really slow IMAP performance

2018-02-24 Thread Neil Jerram
Aki Tuomi writes: > On 24 February 2018 at 12:45 Neil Jerram < n...@ossau.homelinux.net> wrote: > > Please could you help me to understand and fix why my dovecot IMAP > performance is so bad? I've read through a lot of the > performance-related material on the

Re: Really slow IMAP performance

2018-02-24 Thread Aki Tuomi
On 24 February 2018 at 12:45 Neil Jerram < n...@ossau.homelinux.net> wrote: Please could you help me to understand and fix why my dovecot IMAP performance is so bad? I've read through a lot of the