On 07.02.2009, at 13:00, Alain Spineux wrote: > 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 OS X Mail client is slow only to check mail (and presumably - the subscribed mailboxes, which are several hundred). Then it works fine. Squirrelmail is slow on showing every single page (using the previous/ next control). What is "an entropy problem"? 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