[Dovecot] extremely slow delete/move operations?

[Lorens]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 09:44:30AM -0800, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
> my Inbox (<500k) and place it in my Trash folder (~100MB right now).
...
> The primary difference seems to be that we're using NFS here, but I
> wasn't using NFS at my last job.
...
> Mailbox formats are mbox.

Big mboxes on NFS, brrrrrr. Off the cuff, I'd say that your
problem is right there. Anyway, it's a recipe for problems. Why
not maildirs?  Preferably with a filesystem that handles large
directories well.

HTH