Re: [SM-USERS] Performance tuning, large mailboxes and PMDF

[Tony E. <to...@bi...>]

tir, 03.05.2005 kl. 20.16 skrev sa...@ac...:

> My configuration:
> 
> SM v 1.4.4
> XAMPP 1.4.13
>   Apache 2.0.53
>   PHP 4.3.11
>   MySQL 4.1.11
>   eAccelerator 0.9.2a
> running on Fedora Core 3
> hp proliant DL360
> 2GB RAM
> intel xeon 3.6GHz CPU
> 
> Our IMAP server is  PMDF V6.2 running on VMS
> 
> SqirrelMail runs like a charm on smaller mailboxes but is v-e-r-y slow
> when loading larger ones.  For example, I have about 18,500 messages in
> 150 folders and it takes anywhere from 3.5 - 4 minutes to load.  I have
> gone through the performance tuning recommendations and am running
> eAccelerator, boosted my memory_limit setting in php.ini to 64.  I've
> tried using an IMAP proxy - running it on the same server - and it
> actually seemed slower.  The admin of the PMDF server tells me that PMDF
> doesn't support the SORT IMAP extension or server-side threading.  I'm
> guessing that the IMAP server is the cause of the slowness.  Does anybody 
> have experience tuning SM in a similar environment?  Is there something
> else that I can tweak?

See my answer to Jerry Mersel on this list. I have much larger folders
than you - though running Courier IMAP 4.0.2 with enhanced IDLE and fam
2.7.0 support.

--Tonni

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