Nice stats, thanks. I am strongly looking into Dovecot with maildir format, anyone care to comment on that? I know it is still in beta, but it seems solid, abd builds clean on OS X in test so far. On Oct 3, 2008, at 4:34 AM, Tomas Kuliavas wrote: > Select times for mailbox with 5000 messages > Cyrus - 1,3 sec > Courier - 55 sec > hMailServer - 1,5 sec > UW - 440 sec > > Select time depends on caching methods used by IMAP server. It might > take > even 3500 seconds on UW. > > SORT extension does not improve SquirrelMail performance, if mailbox > is not > sorted. > > If mailbox is sorted, SORT extension does improve SquirrelMail > performance. > With SORT extension mailbox sorting is performed on IMAP server and > it puts > more stress on IMAP server. EIMS developer won't like it, but it is > faster > than sorting messages in PHP based webmail. Sorted mailbox > performance might > be abysmal, if IMAP server does not cache message envelope > information or > uses RAM to cache it. > > Other example > Load time for SquirrelMail mailbox with 5k messages, 15 messages per > page, > sorted by sender. > * No sort extension (courier maildir) - 6314,06 > * Courier (maildir) - 1815,98 > * Cyrus - 829,48 > * UW (mbox) - 4575,44 > * hMailServer - 15163,11 > > Tests are performed on PHP setup with very high memory and timeout > limits > and optimized memory usage. If SORT extension is not used on 5k sorted > mailbox, you might hit PHP memory limits instead of getting sorted > results. -- Scott ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
