[CDBUG-talk] Slow webmail

[Patrick Muldoon]

On May 15, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Jaime wrote:

> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Patrick Muldoon <doon at inoc.net>  
> wrote:
>> go to squirrelmail 1.4.18 :)
>
> Well of course!  :)
>
> 1.4.17 was what the FreeBSD ports had to offer.  No real reason  
> beyond that.
>
>> TCP dump traffic between the web and the and the IMAP/SMTP servers
>
> FWIW, I did a tail -f /var/log/maillog while sending a message.  The
> message was sent and even delivered via postfix and procmail almost
> instantaneously.  A few seconds later, an IMAP connect was made (yes,
> I'm using imapproxyd) with a login and a logout.  Then, several dozen
> seconds later, the index of messages for the Inbox appears in my web
> browser.
>
> I'm starting to suspect Apache or maybe the mod_perl system that I
> have for another web application (Request Tracker).  I'm going to
> comment that out of my httpd.conf and see what happens.


Lol  Sounds like the setup that we have here.. Cept I run RT on  
different boxes, under mod_perl.

Does the slowness happen with all users? or only specific ones?

Does it happen on the initial login to the system, or only when  
sending messages?

-Patrick

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