[imp] Seeking advice on slow login times (follow up)

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting "Walter R. Moore" <moorewr at eckerd.edu>:

> OK, I've verified that the LDAP entries are correct in
> turba/config/servers.php
>
> There are in fact a couple 'extra' namespaces in UW-IMAP until we roll
> out the next build of our IMAP server (long story) - would they cause a
> performance hit after the IMAP connection has closed? I'm still on
> horde-3.0.x/IMP-4.0.x and I specify mail/ as my folder path. (/ and
> mail/ are equivalent on our server).
>
> We use two hooks in config/hooks.php (from the examples in
> hooks.php.dist), both LDAP:
>
> _prefs_hook_fullname
> _prefs_hook_from_addr
>
> Are those two calls adding a significant amount of time?
>
> How much of this can I blame on Ingo? I do get in several seconds
> quicker with a new user than with my personal account and it's filter
> rules -- as you'd expect.
>
> I did some sanity checking to make sure I didn't have a sluggish server
> in the mix. I had very fast responses from all of these..:
> ldap searches from the command line
> telnetting imap-server:143 and typing imap folder and message commands
> running psql -h postgres-server horde3 and doing counts on the horde and
> turba folders

I hate to say you may just have to do some benchmarking to figure out  
where the slowness is originating, but that sounds like the best  
solution at this point.  A well-configured IMP installation should not  
take more than 2-3 seconds to login.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]