Hello Timo!
UW-IMAP is even slower on EXPUNGE (factor 10 I guess, nearly on every operation).
Dovecot with large files (2GB, e.g. new mails on the end) is really perfect on EXPUNGE (when there are no large holes). It takes <1s to EXPUNGE.
Ciao, Gerhard
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 07:22 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
I've heard of load average dropping from 100 to 0.02 :)
BTW, how is it that you get such great performance using mbox files? I would have thought it would be much slower than it is to delete the first message from say a 2 gig file? How do you do that so fast?
Expunging the first message from 2GB file is as slow as with UW-IMAP. It's just that usually people don't expunge old mails from large mailboxes. The performance comes simply from not having to read and parse the whole mbox when opening it.