[Dovecot] performance problem?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 4.6.2005, at 02:31, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> 
>> I'm running dovecot on a small server. I put all my mail from the last 
>> 10 years on it (approx. 160 mb).
>>
>> I'm seeing terrible performance. Sometimes, my client needs several 
>> minutes to display a message.  This is with mutt, thunderbird and 
>> evolution. Copying an outbound message to the Sent IMAP folder (15k 
>> messages) typically takes a few minutes, but can be quite fast on 
>> occasion (Thunderbird).
>>
>> How can I debug this problem? I'm running dovecot .99.14 on a Mac Mini 
>> (OS X 10.3,  512 mb, 80 gb).
> 
> 
> 0.99.x's mbox code is pretty bad. Try 1.0-stables or 1.0-tests instead 
> and set mbox_very_dirty_syncs=yes. That should make Dovecot pretty fast 
> as long as you don't delete old messages.

Thanks for your consideration. However, I'm running maildir, and I think 
something's fishy with MacOS's directory handling. Haven't figured out 
what, though.

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