Performance (was Re: [imp] IMP H3 (4.0) (final))

[Lidie Steve]

On Jan 3, 2005, at 4:04 PM, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> Quoting Steve Lidie <sol0 at Lehigh.EDU>:
>
>> IMP 4 seems to be (much) slower than IMP 3.  On a fast Win32 box with 
>> 1
>> GB memory running XP Pro, login to an account with 2,000 mails on IMP3
>> requires a few seconds and 45 MB of memory on the PC.  The same 
>> account
>> on IMP4 requires 2-3 *minutes* to login and uses 117 MB of memory.  
>> The
>> IMP 4 machine is bigger and faster than the IMP 3 machine and, not
>> being production, has no load at all.  Assuming performance 
>> comparisons
>> have been made, is what I am seeing expected behavior?
>
> Expected? No. And that sounds awfully extreme. But IMP 4 hasn't been
> performanced tuned the way that IMP 3 (being available stable for 
> around 3
> years) had been.

OK, I'll begin poking around.  In the meantime, do you have anything 
specific I can do to help?