[horde] IMAP disk I/O slow

[Andreas Hasenack]

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 03:59:13PM -0600, Michael M Slusarz wrote:
> It's well known that maildir scales *much* better than mbox as the 
> mailbox size grows.  An INBOX with 100 MB of data is absolutely 
> enormous so it is sure to be dog-slow if using mbox.  I believe the 
> Courier-IMAP webpage has a benchmark of maildir v. mbox performance so 
> that might be a good place to turn.

http://www.courier-mta.org/mbox-vs-maildir/