Re: slow IMAP connection

Mark Crispin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.uw.c-client
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Tim Mooney wrote:
> This brings up a question I've had: both traditional format and MBX run
> into issues when they cross the 2 GiB boundary, because of signedness
> issues in the UW code.

Correct.  It's not the code so much as it is the system calls; there are
separate system calls that have to be used if you want to cross 2GB
filesize on a 32-bit OS.

It doesn't make much sense to fix because flat files perform so poorly
long before you get to that size.

> I realize a MIX folder is composed of multiple
> files, but does that mean that the 2 GiB is not a problem for MIX?

Not until/unless you start dealing with single messages that are larger
than 2GB.  It will be a while before people start wanting to do that. :)

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