[imp] Performance problems gone!

[Ewout Meij]

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Quoting Vincent Stoessel <vincent@xaymaca.com>:

> 244 messages, there are about 40 users here , my mail is unfortunately 
> using groupwise via imap.
> 
> Mike Barsalou wrote:
> > How many messages are in you inbox?  That has been the biggest impactor
> for
> > me.  Reducing this size does help.
> > 
> > The only other thing I can think of that might have helped is I made some
> > changes to the default prefs...that could have reduced the number of
> MySQL
> > queries that it was making.
> > 
> > Mike
> > 

I had "performance problems" too. My host machine is an old 120Mhz pentium 
64Mb, three network cards, providing MASQing for my internal LAN [about ten 
hosts], four virtual domains and all kinds of services [s/imap s/pop dns 
firewall dmz snort http smtp to name a few]

I write "performance problems" since these are subjective values, just the 
impression that it could/should be faster.

IMP with UW IMAP and MySQL

Last night I swapped the original 1,5Gb harddisk for a new 20Gb one, both 
because of the lacking off free space and because I thought it might be the 
biggest bottle neck of the system.

Let me tell you: it was. IMP & the other php stuff [gallery to name one] is 
screamingly fast now, both localy [100Mb] and remote [mere 1Mb]. 

I can't speak for your system, but remember that the bottle neck of complex 
systems is often something rather trivial, once you identified them ;)

Cheers,
Ewout

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