Re: tuning cyrus?

2007-08-28 Thread Bob Bob
And the integrity of the pst cache file might need checking. This is done by running "scanpst.exe", that is somewhere in the Office pgm directory. I have also seen some strange slowdowns using Cyrus and a damaged pst., mostly at first opening of Outlook. Deleting the pst file cache and

tuning cyrus?

2007-08-27 Thread Mike Eggleston
One user mentions that it still takes several minutes in the morning to 'fetch headers'. This user has Outlook 2003 on MS XP as the mail client. I have less than 20 users using cyrus-imapd 2.3.1 on a fedora core 5 box with current rpms. Does anyone have any tuning hints? Some way to speed things

Re: tuning cyrus?

2007-08-27 Thread Mike Eggleston
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Nik Conwell might have said: This is typically an Outlook problem. The client runs various filters, and possibly has perf issues on local disk (look for disk light activity on the PC) as it's updating its caches. Turn on Cyrus logging for the particular user (in

Re: tuning cyrus?

2007-08-27 Thread Nik Conwell
This is typically an Outlook problem. The client runs various filters, and possibly has perf issues on local disk (look for disk light activity on the PC) as it's updating its caches. Turn on Cyrus logging for the particular user (in the server config log subdir do mkdir username and make

Re: [INFO-CYRUS] Re: tuning cyrus?

2007-08-27 Thread Nik Conwell
On Aug 27, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Mike Eggleston wrote: [...] Where is the server logging sub-directory? I do not see one in /var/lib/cyrus-imapd (those are all binaries) nor do I see one in / var/log. It should be a subdirectory called log in whatever directory configdirectory is set to in

RE: tuning cyrus?

2007-08-27 Thread Ciprian Marius Vizitiu
One user mentions that it still takes several minutes in the morning to 'fetch headers'. This user has Outlook 2003 on MS XP as the mail client. I have less than 20 users using cyrus-imapd 2.3.1 on a fedora core 5 box with current rpms. Does anyone have any tuning hints? Some way to

RE: tuning cyrus?

2007-08-27 Thread Ciprian Marius Vizitiu
The solution to all of this is to leave Outlook running all the time. I've seen Outlook fetching headers for like 100 new messages (from a 2000 messages box) in a matter of seconds on Monday morning fresh start; and it did it on 2 years old WS hardware plus 3 years old server hardware. But one