[Dovecot] Search not working?

[Marc Perkel]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 12.3.2007, at 18.29, Marc Perkel wrote:
>
>> I switched for mbox to maildir last night and now searching folders 
>> isn't working. Getting a timeout. Is there something I might have 
>> forgot to configure?
>
> There are no settings related to that. How large mailboxes do you 
> have? It could simply be that maildir is slower to search than mbox 
> because the OS needs to open/close a lot more files.
>
> strace would show what IMAP process is doing: 
> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/ProcessTracing
>

That may be it. Search works on small folders. But I need to search the 
big folders. What can I do to keep it from timing out? I expected it to 
be slower, but thought it would still work.