[horde] Active Sync makes a rather slow impression

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Jens Hellermann <hellermann at we-do.com>:

> Am 07.09.2015 um 18:54 schrieb Michael J Rubinsky:
>>
>> Quoting Jens Hellermann <hellermann at we-do.com>:
>>
>>> Dear Horde List Members,
>>>
>>> I have to sync several really large (>16GB +) Outlook accounts via  
>>> Activesync into Outlook, and I would like to know if it is  
>>> possible to give some Horde Processes a higher priority or myabe  
>>> asign more workers for certain processes.
>>> Because a  16GB Mail folder with over 50 Subfolders and sub, sub,  
>>> sub Folders is taking really long (more than 8 hours definitly).  
>>> Still the Server seems to be running idle most of the time, hardly  
>>> any network taffic, minimal CPU Usage same for memory.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have an idea, how to fix this issue? Kind regards, Jens.
>>
>>
>> The slowdown is most likely NOT due to any server resource usage -  
>> as you can see by your server stats. This is probably due to OL's  
>> speed in parsing and/or requesting each set of mail messages. IIRC,  
>> I've seen OL request between 5 and 50 messages per request and new  
>> requests are not made immediately after the previous one finishes  
>> (probably to improve responsiveness of OL during the long initial  
>> sync while still allowing NEW email messages to arrive before the  
>> intial sync is finished). As far as I know there is no way to  
>> change this behavior. You can verify this by following the sync log  
>> of an attached OL client.
>>
> Hello Michael, first things first thanks a lot for your quick  
> response. I understand that Outlook needs some time to synchronize,  
> but my impression is that the system became slower with every new  
> mail account I synchronize. What makes it difficult for me to  
> analyze the situation is that I have problems setting up Activesync  
> for logging per device (or single file at the moment). This weekend  
> I upgraded everything to the newest version of Horde 5.2.10 . Maybe  
> logging is a little buggy (or me!). The entries in the gui result in  
> these entries in the conf.php:
>
> $conf['activesync']['logging']['path'] = '/var/log/activesync';
> $conf['activesync']['logging']['level'] = '2';
> $conf['activesync']['logging']['type'] = 'perdevice';
>
> The folder has been given the right permissions but even after a  
> reboot no files ever show up in it. If I give folder path  
> '/var/log/activesync/' I kill horde more or less completely.
>
> Can you confim this behaviour,

No. Logging works fine for me, with those exact same settings  
(assuming the /var/log/activesync directory exists).

or is it me going wrong somewhere?
> Best regards, Jens.
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Mike