Charles Marcus wrote:
Thats really good to know and what I am hoping for - as soon as 1.0 is released and is in portage, I'll be migrating our courier-imap over to dovecot. My test server seems pretty snappy, but there's a big difference between a test server and a production one... ;)
Agreed -- I just ran a non-scientific test for you, as I was curious myself.
Server A: SquirrelMail 1.4.5, Courier-IMAP 3.0.8, NIS+ lookups and NFS mounts to /home, Maildir (existing production, rock solid)
Time to open my mailbox: 36 seconds (*)
Server B: SquirrelMail 1.4.9 (in Courier config), Dovecot 1.0rc22 (Courier namespace mode), PAM/nss_ldap lookups with same NFS mounts (new beta server)
Time to open my mailbox: 4 seconds
Obviously there's a million factors (distro release, CPUs, memory, load, etc.) but across the board my beta users see astounding performance gains. Doing searches inside Thunderbird on random strings exhibits the same behaviour, what used to take a minute takes 2-3 seconds now.
-te
(*) about 7-8 years worth of mail
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