On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Iv Ray <pobox@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have been using Postfix + Cyrus IMAP on FreeBSD for about 2-3 years > and the performance has always been good. > > The last months, however, the speed somehow deteriorated. > Squirrelmail, for instance, takes longer than usual to go to display > the folders and messages after login, and to go to next page (sorting > is off) - 20-30 seconds. E-mail client like OS X Mail takes also > longer to open IMAP accounts on this server, than on other servers. Is-it only a connection time ? And then it's working fine ? Maybe an entropy problem ! Do you have more user using SSL connection with your server (HTTPS, IMAPS) ? > > The server is 2 GHz with 2 GB RAM and 2 x SCSI HDDs in RAID 1, load > average is normally around zero. The server hosts less than 100 e-mail > accounts, most with less than 10 MB of e-mails, and a few with 1-2 GB > of e-mails. These parameters haven't really changed over the last 2-3 > years, so I do not expect the delay to come form there. > > I did "rebuild" of all mailboxes a couple of times, but without success. > > Could someone give me a hint what might cause the slowness and/or > possible debugging steps. > > Thank you very much, > Iv > > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html > -- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html