cyrus vs UW imap

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 13:56 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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)
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anything other than uw-imapd w/ mbox is an improvement.

Craig