First of all, I used skiplist for mailboxes.db with imap-2.1.9 for better performance. But, I found sometimes the db gone to be corrupted, so I had to make a daily backup. As the author wrote in the skiplist code, there would be some bug. I think care must be taken to use skiplist so far.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Pushor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 3:08 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Skiplist / best practice for 2.1 branch > > > All, > > Hello, and I must first apologize because I know that what I > am asking > has been covered before, but I am having a difficult time finding > information in the archives. > > I am still running the 1.6 branch on all of my production > servers, and > want to bring everything up to 2.1. I have resisted thus far > for a few > reasons, one being reported problems with Sleepycat DB (as > well as grief > trying to get all the software on my system to use one particular > version of DB). > > I have done some research on the skiplist algorithm, but am wondering > about the cyrus implementation. Is it stable? > > What is the current recommended/best practice for configuring 2.1.10? > Which components should be DB as compared to skiplist? > > duplicate? mboxlist? seen? subs? tls? > > I definately favor reliability over performance. > > Thanks, and pointers to relevant articles or past discussions > welcomed. > > Tim > > >
