Re: slow IMAP connection

Mark Crispin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.uw.c-client
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On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Bob Atkins wrote:
> As those who went down the maildir path (with another
> imap server) have painfully discovered - directories with too many
> inodes are very slow to search. mix is a great balance between not too
> many inodes and keeping file sizes and linear search runs to a minimum.

Interesting.  I have had acolytes of the maildir church scream that I
don't know what I am talking about when I said that there was a scaling
issue with directories with too many inodes.

FWIW, the same issue happens with mh and Cyrus.

-- Mark --

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