From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3Ekg-0005Cv-7F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:13:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7BFBSwx002767; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:11:28 GMT Received: from mail.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7BFBRlX014296 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:11:27 GMT Received: (qmail 15917 invoked by uid 0); 11 Aug 2005 15:12:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ida.bway.net) (216.220.96.4) by smtp.bway.net with (EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 11 Aug 2005 15:12:17 -0000 Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:09:32 -0400 (EDT) From: "A. Khattri" To: "Ian P. Christian" cc: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Comments on IMAP Server (cyrus/courier/dovecot) In-Reply-To: <200508111521.57216.pookey@pookey.co.uk> Message-ID: References: <1123731973.5878.30.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <200508111327.40445.pookey@pookey.co.uk> <200508111521.57216.pookey@pookey.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Archives-Salt: cb01e511-f6c8-46af-a947-ca7eac58954e X-Archives-Hash: b2228326ba571bd7dd1b93601683e522 On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Ian P. Christian wrote: > It's not to do with mail size, it's to do with number of messages in any one > mailbox. The file system underlying it will also effect this. > One of my mailboxes currently has 10,000 emails in, and it's still not showing > any signs of becoming any slower. As I mentioned, some accounts have hundreds of Mb of messages and a few have > 1Gb of email in them... > I imagine people's milage might vary with this kinda thing, but that post > suggested all he changed was the mail server, not the file system, or > anything else. (I presume he didn't - he installed them side by side) Exactly. Of course, I know, good performance begins with good hardware. Our servers all use SCSI disks (U160 or better), some are RAIDed, some not. > http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/ag.html > "The Cyrus IMAP Aggregator transparently distributes IMAP and POP mailboxes > across multiple servers. Unlike other systems for load balancing IMAP > mailboxes, the aggregator allows users to access mailboxes on any of the IMAP > servers in the system. " You could do something similar by NFS mounting maildirs across a cluster. -- -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list