[imp] Imp+sorting=terrible slow down

Joe7 rrcomp at hotmail.com
Tue Jun 28 10:21:37 PDT 2005


I use that too..so i guess not ;)
Joe7

Jigish Gohil wrote:

>Just wanted to know, does imap proxy have any performance advantage in
>this kind of situation, i.e. large mailboxes and sorting?
>
>Jigish
>
>On 6/28/05, Ross Becker <ross at rbecker.org> wrote:
>  
>
>>Another option is to try out the dovecot IMAP server. It's designed to
>>make stuff like this work quickly.
>>
>>--Ross
>>
>>Michael M Slusarz wrote:
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>>
>>>Quoting Joe7 <rrcomp at hotmail.com>:
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Hello Experts,
>>>>I just realized that my problem with mailboxes -which has more then
>>>>10.000mails in inbox-,
>>>>IS sorting.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Sorting 10,000 messages on any server is going to take a substantial
>>>amount of time.  As you have noted, this has absolutely nothing to do
>>>with IMP.
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>(if I disable this in courier imapd config,
>>>>everything goes at lightning speed, login takes <1sec (instead of
>>>>1MINUTE or failure), and to go to
>>>>the next page in inbox is just about 1sec instead of 30..
>>>>So my question is how to make sorting faster.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>How to make sorting faster?  The only surefire solution is to reduce
>>>the number of messages in your mailbox.  Or use the default sorting
>>>algorithim that your underlying mailbox uses (most likely this is
>>>arrival time).
>>>
>>>michael
>>>
>>>_______________________________________
>>>Michael Slusarz [slusarz at curecanti.org]
>>>      
>>>
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