[Dovecot] 0.99.11-test6

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Mon Aug 25 12:09:53 EEST 2003


Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> writes:

> Or maybe it'd work if I just grabbed exclusive lock whenever reading
> header sizes. They could be then copied into memory to avoid locking
> more than once. But that still creates locking contention if lots of
> clients are reading the mailbox. Exactly in the situation where I'd
> mostly use mboxes..

Would not one rather use Maildir and assume the Kernel caches directory
data? No locking contention...

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Matthias Andree


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