I was noticing that IMAP 'status' calls to update the message counts in our web interface seemed to be taking quite a bit of time. I ran a stand alone script to check this, and found:
Time: 0.002, msgs: 12, unseen: 10, folder: INBOX.spam Time: 0.004, msgs: 18978, unseen: 18978, folder: INBOX.postfix Time: 4.930, msgs: 24688, unseen: 5002, folder: INBOX.mod_perl Time: 0.010, msgs: 2707, unseen: 2707, folder: INBOX.processed Strange, one folder in particular was taking a long time to status, while all the other folders, including a folder of similar size were several orders of magnitude faster! Having a quick look in the spool dir, everything seemed ok. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mod_perl]# ls -l cyrus* -rw------- 1 cyrus cyrus 15022700 Sep 19 01:03 cyrus.cache -rw------- 1 cyrus cyrus 243 Sep 18 23:41 cyrus.header -rw------- 1 cyrus cyrus 1284164 Sep 19 01:03 cyrus.index Anyway, I deleted the cyrus.* files, touched some empty ones, and did a reconstruct on the folder and ran my test again: Time: 0.003, msgs: 12, unseen: 10, folder: INBOX.spam Time: 0.004, msgs: 18978, unseen: 18978, folder: INBOX.postfix Time: 0.003, msgs: 24688, unseen: 5002, folder: INBOX.mod_perl Time: 0.002, msgs: 2707, unseen: 2707, folder: INBOX.processed Much better! Still wondering what happened here, and how to avoid it in the future. Rob ---------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sign up at http://fastmail.fm for fast, ad free, IMAP accessible email
