[imp] Re: imp with courrier imap is too slow

[Daniel Eckl]

Zitat von Rick Romero <rick at havokmon.com>:

> On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 15:44, Daniel Eckl wrote:
>> I made my webmail for a very small user group which all had local unix
>> accounts.
>> At the beginning I used small IMAP servers like imapd and dovecot and so on,
>> then I tried courier, which was a little bit better.
>>
>> Using an imapproxy like that from horde project helped a little bit, but not
>> much.
>>
>> And then I was bored and tried cyrus and *boom* performance was
>> multiplied by 5
>> to 10 times.
>>
>> So that's my suggestion to you. If you want to have professional speed
>> you have
>> to use professional software and you have to swallow the bitter pill 
>> and learn
>> to install, configure and administrate the new complicated daemon. It's hard
>> work, but it's worth the cost.
>
> That's odd.  www.vfemail.net is a PIII-800 accessing courier on a
> P4-2800.  The only time I noticed a slowness was when I first added the
> P4, and courier was on the PIII-800 accessing the data on the P4 over
> NFS.  The PIII only has a 10MB NIC.
>
> This is on FreeBSD 4.8 and 5.2.1 respectively.

Hmmmmm.... Okay, my experience is with imp and the imap daemon on the same
machine only. So I can say for sure, that my speedup comes from switching the
IMAP daemon only.

> IMHO, the biggest performance boost comes from mod_gzip.
> <shrug>

Yes, of course. Forgot to mention that because it's active by default 
if PHP has
the extension. I'm used to linux distributions where this is enabled by
default, too. But if someone compiles PHP himself, this could be a point, yes.

Greets,
Daniel

>
> Rick
>
>>
>> Greets,
>> Daniel
>>
>> Zitat von Tony Lay <tonylay at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 RELEASE and horde RC2
>> > Everything for the most part is good
>> >
>> > Performance is slower in the inbox, don't know exact stats...I have a
>> > feeling it's just a setting somewhere but I had to get the
>> > functionality going so I disregarded performance.  At this point I'm
>> > moving on to the usability.  I have spent three days on it but it's
>> > all good...That c-client setup on FreeBSD is a real treat if any of
>> > you haven't had to do it :-)
>> >
>> > I'd like to post how the heck I got that going but my notes are at the
>> > office and I don't know where the best location would be to do that
>> > besides here.
>> >
>> > BTW…I'm on here through google groups and I'm going to be tweaking
>> > probably through Christmas break if anybody has questions.  I'm slower
>> > with customers than usual (IT + consultant) so I actually have the
>> > time to work on this right now.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > -TLAY
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