[Dovecot] Slow bulk deleting

[Leslie Viljoen]

Using reiserfs and Maildir. 
I had about 2000 messages, and when I select about 200 of them and press
delete, the client seems to hang (I waited about 4 minutes). 
Outlook Express would pop up a message every minute and say that it
hadn't heard from the server in 60 seconds. Evolution would just hang. 

If I then cancelled/killed the client and accessed the server again,
the messages would be marked deleted and I could purge them without
problems.
I don't know IMAP protocol at all, but the log file seems 
I have an Outlook Express log file (500k) if that would help you at all.

Les



On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 15:10, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 11:49, Leslie Viljoen wrote:
> > I am finding Dovecot very slow to delete large numbers of messages. IS
> > this a known problem? 
> 
> Maildir or mbox? How many messages do you have in the mailbox? How many
> are you deleting? How slow is very slow?
> 
> I don't remember it having any problems.. Well, except if you have a
> huge maildir with ext2/ext3 filesystem that's going to be slow.
> 
>