cyrus vs UW imap

[Rex Dieter]

Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 11:57 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:

>>Craig White wrote:

>>>FWIW - I didn't realize how much of a performance dog uw-imap was until
>>>I installed cyrus-imapd - and this was on my own mail server where I am
>>>the only user.

>>What kinds of tasks were dog slow?  Could it be because your mailboxes 
>>were in the default compatible-but-horribly-slow mbox format?

> yes indeedy - default compatible-but-horribly-slow mbox format would be
> an accurate description.

When we changed from mbox to mbx mailbox format, we saw much improved 
performance too (better file locking and seek-times primarily).  I would 
venture to guess the improvement in the same ballpark as when you 
switched to cyrus-imapd (which uses MailDir format, I believe, which has 
similar benefits)

-- Rex