[imp] Permformance issue

[Andrew Morgan]

My personal opinion is that you are better off installing IMP on a
separate machine.  No matter where you install IMP, it will make an IMAP
or POP connection to your mail server.  In one case this happens locally
by connecting to localhost and in the other case it happens across the
network.

If for some reason you have a really slow network between the two
machines, then running it locally would make sense.  Otherwise, I'd rather
have the extra horsepower of a second machine.  IMP, especially using SSL
connections, does take some horsepower to run, so why not take that load
off of your mail server.  Let your mail server just handle IMAP/POP
connections.

Where possible, I prefer to dedicate servers to separate services rather
than running it all on one big machine.

Hope this helps,
	Andy

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Terry Poperszky wrote:

> Particularly unhelpful response, purposely obtuse.
>
> All things being equal and assuming that you do not purposely degrade the
> performance of one installation of over another is there a reason (i.e.
> performance) to install horde/imp on the mail server rather than a remote
> machine in the same facility.
>
> Terry Poperszky
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Rostetter [mailto:eric.rostetter@physics.utexas.edu]
> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 12:05 PM
> To: Terry Poperszky
> Cc: imp@lists.horde.org
> Subject: Re: [imp] Permformance issue
>
>
> Quoting Terry Poperszky <Terry.Poperszky@SosStaffing.com>:
>
> > Is there a substantial performance gain by hosting the Horde/IMP on
> > the mail server vs. a another server in the same facility?
> >
> > Terry Poperszky
>
> Depends on how you implement it is both cases.  ;)
>
> Performance is always implementation dependent.  You can make it either
> faster or slower in either configuration.
>
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