On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 22:03 +0200, Mika Iisakkila wrote:
> (Yes, I've always wondered myself what's happening back there
> too, but never bothered to find out. Apparently Cyrus does this
> in some brute-force way, one mailbox at a time -- in your truss
> segment, it seems to read in three megabytes' worth of mailboxes.db
> file over and over again.)

Larry's e-mail reader doesn't preserve threading information, so you
clearly missed his explanatory e-mail: the mmap emulation in Cyrus is
not very efficient.  when recompiled to use the OS' mmap, the slow
startup went away.
-- 
Kjetil T.


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