Re: Slow LIST command

[John Alton Tamplin]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Rob Siemborski wrote:

Having watched the activity, the thing which seems to consume most of the
resources are the LIST "" * and LIST "" % commands. These return with a
response like "OK Completed (1.480 secs 28 calls)" but can take a very
long real time. Is there anything which can be done to speed up the
performance of the LIST command? My imapd.conf is appended.

Are you using the skiplist backend for your mboxlist?

If not, that should tremendously increase LIST performance.

Is the recommendation for skiplist compared just to flat or to db3 as well? If the latter, how is reliability compared to db3, and does that extend to the other uses besides mboxlist?

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