[nycbug-talk] httpsd

[Pete Wright]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 02:09:11PM -0500, Marc Spitzer wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:14:11 -0500, Pete Wright <pete at finn.nomadlogic.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 06:43:12PM -0500, csnyder wrote:
> > notied some improvements in loading pages....but it was still slow.  then did
> > what i should have done fromt he get go, ran top while loading pages and noticed
> > that impad was maxing out while my INBOX was being loaded.  i think this may have
> > to due with my *very* cluttered INBOX.  i'll post more info when i have it....
> 
> If you are using a mbox(aka 1 big file) for your local inbox you will
> have problems, I speak from experience here.  The problem  is that you
> need to load and parse your inbox and due to the way UFS works if you
> change anything, other than an append on the  end, you will need to
> write the new file then delete the old(from imapd POV) and this can
> use 2x the space of the inbox and be very slow.  look into maildir or
> some other format if you have lots of mail and want imapd to be happy.

fortunately I'm using Maildir, i made that decision a while ago...around
the time i migrated away from POP.

-p

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