Hello Chris, On Wednesday, December 04, 2002, Chris Cameron wrote... > I'm curious to know what kind of performance other people are seeing > with their SquirrelMail installation, and whether what I'm seeing is > normal.
> I've got an 850 P3, 512 RAM and a pair of SCSI drives using Courier > IMAP and Squirrel Mail 1.2.10 all going over 128bit SSL. > Now, for 1 user (me) with a mailbox of 20 or so messages, some with > attachments, I can singlehandedly make the load average go from 0.07 > to 1.25. Watching 'top's output, no single process ever uses more > than 3% CPU, and in total idle CPU is always above 90%. There are one or two tweaks you can try to see if this helps. Currently (without configuring anything) SM does all the sorting of the mail, which takes a lot of processing. There is an option in conf.pl (under your config directory) that allows server side sorting. Run ./conf.pl and go to option #4 I believe, and turn on server side sorting, and check to see if this helps a little. This just makes courier return the emails in a requested order, instead of us grabbing them, and sorting them all before continuing with our other formatting. > Is this a "problem", or something that's to be expected with webmail > over SSL? Anyone else notice a large spike in their load average > when there's a couple of people clicking away in Squirrel mail? SSL in general will slow down the application (not greatly) as it has an extra step to perform before any work is done by us (encryption and decryption). Although it shouldn't make any difference load wise as it is just a small process to your server. -- Jonathan Angliss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
