[SM-DEVEL] 1.1.3 vs 1.2.2 performance No performance difference in this case.

[Daniel N. <dni...@si...>]

Hi All,

I'm in the process of deploying squirrelmail as the webmail
solution for our company. Everyone I talk to is very happy
about the way things work with SM !

During the eval, I was using version 1.0.6 of SM (stable
at the time). Now I'm installing on the "real" server
hardware and I choose to go with the latest stable version
(1.2.2). I noticed a couple of nice feature enhancements
but also a performance drop in SM. I guess that's a
tradeoff but I believe there is a problem here. I have a
couple of "benchmark" e-mails which basically have pretty
large html tables in them. I choose to view these attachments
though SM by clicking on the attachment and the bottom of
the message view. The html attachment takes 28 seconds to
appear in my browser using SM 1.2.2 compared to 4 seconds
using SM 1.1.3 [cvs]. This seems odd, doesn't it ?

I have checked out 1.1.3 from CVS and I'm running without
any plugins installed on either 1.2.2 or 1.1.3, so plugins
shouldn't matter in this case.

I also have a large e-mail (4.1MB) of uuencoded data
which takes 118 seconds to display on both 1.1.3 and 1.2.2.
No performance difference in this case.

Both versions of SM is running on the same server (Linux
2.2.18 on Compaq DS10 Alphaserver, 466MHz EV6 with 512MB
memory)

Any ideas ?

Thanks
Daniel Nilsson