Re: Performance problems, compared to wu-imapd

2004-01-29 Thread Ken Murchison
Kendrick Vargas wrote: On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Rob Siemborski wrote: On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Kendrick Vargas wrote: stores it's messages. If you configured sendmail and uw-imap to store it's messages in maildir format (which I believe you can), then you'd have a real test for testing the performance

Re: Performance problems, compared to wu-imapd

2004-01-29 Thread Kendrick Vargas
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Rob Siemborski wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Kendrick Vargas wrote: > > > I always thought it was configurable to do do that... uw's cclient library > > can read a bunch of different format mailboxes so I figured uw-imapd would > > be able to read them, it is after all just an

Re: Performance problems, compared to wu-imapd

2004-01-29 Thread Kendrick Vargas
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Rob Siemborski wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Kendrick Vargas wrote: > > > stores it's messages. If you configured sendmail and uw-imap to store it's > > messages in maildir format (which I believe you can), then you'd have a > > real test for testing the performance of one ove

Re: Performance problems, compared to wu-imapd

2004-01-29 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Kendrick Vargas wrote: > I always thought it was configurable to do do that... uw's cclient library > can read a bunch of different format mailboxes so I figured uw-imapd would > be able to read them, it is after all just another mailbox. I remember > seeing, once, something s

Re: Performance problems, compared to wu-imapd

2004-01-29 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Kendrick Vargas wrote: > stores it's messages. If you configured sendmail and uw-imap to store it's > messages in maildir format (which I believe you can), then you'd have a > real test for testing the performance of one over the other. But at that > point, the configuration t

Re: Performance problems, compared to wu-imapd

2004-01-29 Thread Paul M Fleming
What he said! UW-IMAP in sealed mode is supposed to perform fairly well, but you don't get sieve, murder, partitions etc.. Having a sealed system in a non unix end-user environment is the way to go. Our users have no idea what kind of server they are talking to -- just that it speaks IMAP ;) K

Re: Performance problems, compared to wu-imapd

2004-01-29 Thread Paul M Fleming
Comments are based on Cyrus and wu-imap using mbx format -- Just reading mailboxes isn't a good test.. Cyrus _really_ excels when you start do a lot of things to the same mailbox at the same time. For example, deleting email and delivering new email to the same mailbox at the same time. Try putti

Re: Performance problems, compared to wu-imapd

2004-01-29 Thread Kendrick Vargas
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Tuomas Toropainen wrote: > The problem is that wu-imapd seems to perform much better than cyrus. > Cyrus version is 2.1.16, compiled with default database options. Syslog is > not logging debug messages, and has synchronous logging disabled (-). Both > systems have 500 test us

Re: Performance problems, compared to wu-imapd

2004-01-29 Thread pheonix1t
Tuomas Toropainen wrote: I have been running some performance tests on my cyrus test installation. The computer is not very fast, but my intention was just try how cyrus performs compared to wu-imap on the same computer. It's 350Mhz P2 with 256MB memory and 4,5GB scsi disk. OS is redhat 9 and fi

Re: Performance problems, compared to wu-imapd

2004-01-29 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Tuomas Toropainen wrote: > What am I doing wrong, or is this computer just too slow for cyrus to > perform well? Or are the default databases so poor that they cayse this? > > Complete results are at > http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~tjt/imaptestit/cyrus/results.html (cyrus) > and http:

Performance problems, compared to wu-imapd

2004-01-29 Thread Tuomas Toropainen
I have been running some performance tests on my cyrus test installation. The computer is not very fast, but my intention was just try how cyrus performs compared to wu-imap on the same computer. It's 350Mhz P2 with 256MB memory and 4,5GB scsi disk. OS is redhat 9 and filesystem ext3. I'm using m