Quoting Stan Hoeppner stan@hardwarefreak.com:
I'm running mbox with 1.2 and not seeing any problems... But that may be because I threw a lot of hardware at it?
Hi Eric. Not sure if even fast hardware searching 11,000+ message count mbox'en without an FTS plugin would give speedy results, given Timo's discovery of earlier today.
Can't say, as I don't personally have a 11K+ message mbox handy that I can run the test on. I just don't keep that much mail around of my own...
But it works okay on my 4K to 5K message mbox files, which are the largest I have... Usually takes about 1 second per 1K messages, so about 4 seconds for the 4K mbox, 5 seconds for the 5K mbox, etc. Of course, a bit slower when the server is overly busy... I've had it take 10 or 12 seconds before...
I do have users with large mbox files (12K+) who have never complained, but that doesn't mean much... I don't know which ones do body searches, or how often they do them, etc. And not all users complain even when there is a slowness or outright problem...
So, no scientific data... But no complaints here... Then again, I only have a small number of users with mboxes that large... We discourage that kind of thing here...
-- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin
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