On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 08:00:31PM +0000, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Matthew Sackman wrote:
>
> > I've used postfix for a while now on a few machines. I used to use maildirs
> > with courier-imap
>
> I've got to get exim playing with cyrus this evening. It's a fscking pain.
>
> > but switched to uw-imapd and mbox format a few months ago
> > because the maildir was just too slow over imap
>
> Indeed, it's bothering me that we might turn out to have the same problem,
> though we're running RAID 5 with reiserfs - who knows :-)
There's an interesting thread on the ext3 mailing list atm about reiser being
much faster for small files, but ext3 really shining with larger files. Plus
apparently ext3 is actually safer in terms of possible data lost on a crash.
(No idea why though... guess the answer's in the code :-)
My debian user mbox has 2452 messages atm. Loading it into mutt over imaps
on at 100TX crossover takes approx 3 seconds. However, there is about a 10
second delay as the machine reads the file before sending the data across to
mutt. It actually takes longer to open the mbox if I ssh to the machine and
open it in mutt on the same machine. Weird.
Matthew
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