[nycbug-talk] httpsd

[Marc Spitzer]

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:33:27 -0500, Jonathan <jonathan at kc8onw.net> wrote:

> Just a "Me Too" but I have the same problem.  Courier-IMAP will max out
> for about 10-15 seconds before Squirrelmail even gets the data to start
> creating the page.  This is with a Maildir folder with 11000+ messages
> in it.  My 300 message inbox only takes about 3-4 seconds total.  The
> numbers may be somewhat off as it's been a while since I've actually
> used my webmail but they should be fairly close.  I do have threading
> enabled which I know increases the workload but even before I enabled
> threading it was not much faster :P  If someone would like a shell
> account to test things I may be able to provide one, or just tell me
> what to do on IM.
> 
> Hope I can help,
> Jonathan

here is a thought, if it is not turned on  rebuild your kernel with
DIRHASH(sp?)  turned  on.  I think it is turned on by default.  What
it does is store files in a hash instead of a linked list .  And this
can speed up file access quite a bit for fat directories.

marc