> I have SM running on the same host as my Courier-IMAP install and I have > also installed imapproxy, enabled server side sorting and server side > threading. All of these things did help - I went from not being able to > pull up a folder with 27k messages in it to being able to bring it up in > around 40 seconds. > > Now, I know a folder of 27k messages is a little ridiculous :-) but some > of the professors around here have even bigger folders. What would be > the next area to look at to improve performance? The thing that worries > me is that right now I'm the only user testing this system. I worry > what will happen when it opens to all of our users (50-100 regular users > and another 100 occasional ones). The server is 2.8GHz Xeon system with > 1GB RAM (adding a 2nd processor and another 1GB RAM this month). The > web server is Apache 1.3.29, PHP 4.3.5RC3 (upgrading to 4.3.9 this month). > > I would suspect that the delays are on the imap side with the sorts and > thus speeding up PHP might not help any. Is that a good assumption? > Where should I look next for optimizations? I've looked through the > FAQs but other than turning on server side sorts and threads and > installing the proxy, I didn't see anything else.
I think bottleneck is in your filesystem. Compare directory access times on different filesystems. Find the one that can access directories with many small files faster. -- Tomas ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
