> On Thu, 20 May 2010, Dan White wrote: > >> Which backend are you using for your mailboxes database (config item: >> mboxlist_db)? >> >> You might try converting to a different backend if you suspect problems >> with it. > > I'm using the skiplist one, since bdb is more time doing recovery than > doing useful work :P I could try the flat one but I'm worried about > performance... OTOH 1500 mailboxes are not *too* many to fit in the > working set... Before you put too much work into it, why not upgrade to the current 2.3.16 release first? IIRC there have been quite a number of skiplist fixes in the recent versions so you may have luck with it. > > As an aside, why some db can be put on sql and not some other? i.e. for > example, put the mailbox db on postgres? I think the kind of access cyrus is doing with some databases is not something where an SQL db will perform well. Simon ---- 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
