[Dovecot] v1.1.rc1 released

[Gerhard Wiesinger]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Feb 22, 2008, at 8:23 AM, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
>
>> Hello Timo!
>> 
>> Looks like that mbox index handling still doesn't work with deliver:
>> 1.) 1s mail delivered: Only dovecot.index.log is generated.
>
> This is correct. dovecot.index doesn't need to be created/updated always, and 
> dovecot.index.cache isn't created because there's nothing that's known wanted 
> to be cached.

Hmmm. But shouldn't this be a feature of 1.1 that deliver updates indexes 
at deliver time? (maybe you can choose the typical indexes the clients 
use).

>
>> 2.) Delivering several mails (e.g. 20x50MB=1GB) and opening with dovecot 
>> 1.0: Still slow. (after 2 times 1 time opened with dovecot 1.0 to generate 
>> indexes).
>
> What do you mean by "open"? If you open it with an IMAP client it probably 
> fetches a lot of data and Dovecot needs to parse the messages for that. 
> deliver doesn't pre-cache anything it doesn't know a client wants, so this is 
> slow for the first messages. But if you do for example:
>

Yes, open means opening with an imap client, especially with alpine 1.00.

> 1. deliver the first mail
> 2. open the mailbox
> 3. deliver lots of large mails
> 4. open the mailbox again
>
> It should be fast. (and I just tested - it is)
>

Yes, that's exactly the testcase I use. But here it is slow (opening is 
always done with doevecot 1.0.latest/alpine 1.00 and deliver is done with 
1.1.rc1). I use large files to see a time I see on the first look on opening.

Files written should be larger than RAM available to avoid disk caching.

>> BTW: Is the index of 1.1 and 1.0 compatible?
>
> They should be, but if you still have problems with it being slow, maybe 
> there's a small incompatibility.
>

Thnx.

Ciao,
Gerhard

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