Re: slow IMAP connection
Mark Crispin <[email protected]>
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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 -- http://panda.com/mrc Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote. _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list [email protected] http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw