Re: [SM-USERS] Performance issues with 1.4.20?

2010-03-24 Thread Paul Lesniewski
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:21 AM, C. Bensend wrote: > >> "Rough timings" are more difficult to work with.  I asked because my >> tests showed similar numbers to Tomas', where the patch should result >> in about a 50% speedup on mailbox load. >> >> The patch should have NO impact on clicking Next/Pr

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance issues with 1.4.20?

2010-03-24 Thread C. Bensend
> "Rough timings" are more difficult to work with. I asked because my > tests showed similar numbers to Tomas', where the patch should result > in about a 50% speedup on mailbox load. > > The patch should have NO impact on clicking Next/Previous. The only > significant change to Next/Previous is

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance issues with 1.4.20?

2010-03-23 Thread Paul Lesniewski
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:07 PM, C. Bensend wrote: > >> How did you quantify that?  Or is it just a random guess based on >> how responsive the interface *seems* to you? > > Sorry, Paul, I don't really have any metrics here...  I flipped > strings.php back and forth between patched and not patched

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance issues with 1.4.20?

2010-03-23 Thread Tomas Kuliavas
Paul Lesniewski wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:51 AM, C. Bensend wrote: >> >>> The issue is the array_walk() in sq_mb_list_encodings(), which does >>> not cache its results.  The attached patch is still slower than the >>> pre-1.4.20 code, but it's much closer.  Testing and feedback is >>

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance issues with 1.4.20?

2010-03-23 Thread C. Bensend
> How did you quantify that? Or is it just a random guess based on > how responsive the interface *seems* to you? Sorry, Paul, I don't really have any metrics here... I flipped strings.php back and forth between patched and not patched again, and did some rough timings... I'm averaging about 8

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance issues with 1.4.20?

2010-03-23 Thread Paul Lesniewski
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:51 AM, C. Bensend wrote: > >> The issue is the array_walk() in sq_mb_list_encodings(), which does >> not cache its results.  The attached patch is still slower than the >> pre-1.4.20 code, but it's much closer.  Testing and feedback is >> appreciated. > > I've applied thi

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance issues with 1.4.20?

2010-03-23 Thread C. Bensend
> The issue is the array_walk() in sq_mb_list_encodings(), which does > not cache its results. The attached patch is still slower than the > pre-1.4.20 code, but it's much closer. Testing and feedback is > appreciated. I've applied this patch, and it seems a little faster... Maybe a 10 to 20%

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance issues with 1.4.20?

2010-03-23 Thread Paul Lesniewski
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Tomas Kuliavas wrote: > > > C. Bensend wrote: >> >> >> Hey folks, >> >>    After vetting 1.4.20 on a development server, I rolled it out to >> my colocated server successfully. >> >>    Since then, the performance in the web interface has taken a >> pretty bad hit

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance issues with 1.4.20?

2010-03-22 Thread C. Bensend
>>After vetting 1.4.20 on a development server, I rolled it out to >> my colocated server successfully. >> >>Since then, the performance in the web interface has taken a >> pretty bad hit. With 1.4.19, bringing up each email was almost >> instantaneous, now there is a several second lag b

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance issues with 1.4.20?

2010-03-22 Thread Tomas Kuliavas
C. Bensend wrote: > > > Hey folks, > >After vetting 1.4.20 on a development server, I rolled it out to > my colocated server successfully. > >Since then, the performance in the web interface has taken a > pretty bad hit. With 1.4.19, bringing up each email was almost > instantaneous,

[SM-USERS] Performance issues with 1.4.20?

2010-03-22 Thread C. Bensend
Hey folks, After vetting 1.4.20 on a development server, I rolled it out to my colocated server successfully. Since then, the performance in the web interface has taken a pretty bad hit. With 1.4.19, bringing up each email was almost instantaneous, now there is a several second lag betwee

Re: [SM-USERS] performance issues that seemingly can not be solved.

2008-10-04 Thread Scott Haneda
On Oct 3, 2008, at 2:50 PM, Chris Hilts wrote: > Scott Haneda wrote: >> Nice stats, thanks. I am strongly looking into Dovecot with maildir >> format, anyone care to comment on that? I know it is still in beta, >> but it seems solid, abd builds clean on OS X in test so far. > Can't comment on Do

Re: [SM-USERS] performance issues that seemingly can not be solved.

2008-10-04 Thread Tomas Kuliavas
> Hi Tomas, > > You give some sort times for several IMAP servers, do you happen to have > sort times for Dovecot?? Not yet. Dovecot supports many different mailbox formats and I haven't profiled it. -- Tomas - This SF.Net

Re: [SM-USERS] performance issues that seemingly can not be solved.

2008-10-04 Thread Chris Hilts
Scott Haneda wrote: > Hello, I am running SquirrelMail 1.4.16, against EIMS Mail Server > which support IMAP. > > SquirrelMail is very slow at loading mailboxes. EIMS stores mail in a > single file, like UW IMAP server. If I telnet into the server, and > select a mailbox, one in which I fee

Re: [SM-USERS] performance issues that seemingly can not be solved.

2008-10-04 Thread Tomas Kuliavas
> Hi Tomas, > > You give some sort times for several IMAP servers, do you happen to have > sort times for Dovecot?? Dovecot mbox mailbox with 5k messages SELECT time - 4,35 ms Caching difference - 2702,9 ms SORT FROM - 242 ms Dovecot maildir mailbox with 5k messages SELECT time - 8,64 ms Caching

Re: [SM-USERS] performance issues that seemingly can not be solved.

2008-10-03 Thread Chris Hilts
Scott Haneda wrote: > Nice stats, thanks. I am strongly looking into Dovecot with maildir > format, anyone care to comment on that? I know it is still in beta, > but it seems solid, abd builds clean on OS X in test so far. Can't comment on Dovcecot, but on the other end of things I'd highly r

Re: [SM-USERS] performance issues that seemingly can not be solved.

2008-10-03 Thread Scott Haneda
Nice stats, thanks. I am strongly looking into Dovecot with maildir format, anyone care to comment on that? I know it is still in beta, but it seems solid, abd builds clean on OS X in test so far. On Oct 3, 2008, at 4:34 AM, Tomas Kuliavas wrote: > Select times for mailbox with 5000 message

Re: [SM-USERS] performance issues that seemingly can not be solved.

2008-10-03 Thread Richard Hall
Hi Tomas, You give some sort times for several IMAP servers, do you happen to have sort times for Dovecot?? Redards, -Rich On Fri, October 3, 2008 05:34, Tomas Kuliavas wrote: > > > Jesse Michaels wrote: >> >> Hello, I am running SquirrelMail 1.4.16, against EIMS Mail Server >> which support IMA

Re: [SM-USERS] performance issues that seemingly can not be solved.

2008-10-03 Thread Tomas Kuliavas
Jesse Michaels wrote: > > Hello, I am running SquirrelMail 1.4.16, against EIMS Mail Server > which support IMAP. > > SquirrelMail is very slow at loading mailboxes. EIMS stores mail in a > single file, like UW IMAP server. If I telnet into the server, and > select a mailbox, one in whi

Re: [SM-USERS] performance issues that seemingly can not be solved.

2008-10-01 Thread Scott Haneda
On Oct 1, 2008, at 9:58 PM, Karl Pearson wrote: >> And the EIMS developer showed surprising ignorance regarding this >> fact. That's the biggest sign to me that you need to find a better >> IMAP server. > > Might I suggest switching to Dovecot. I don't know if it's possible, > but > when I made

Re: [SM-USERS] performance issues that seemingly can not be solved.

2008-10-01 Thread Scott Haneda
On Oct 1, 2008, at 7:45 PM, Paul Lesniewski wrote: >> Not off the top of my head. It's been a long time since I've delved >> into it, my Real Life has really slammed my development time. > > If you insist on keeping enormous INBOXes (bad form IMO), try > SquirrelMail 1.5.2, where header fetching

Re: [SM-USERS] performance issues that seemingly can not be solved.

2008-10-01 Thread Karl Pearson
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Paul Lesniewski wrote: > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Chris Hilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Scott Haneda wrote: 3 seconds just to tell you how many messages there are. Now imagine how long it takes to fetch headers. >>> >>> I know, I feel it is slow as well. >

Re: [SM-USERS] performance issues that seemingly can not be solved.

2008-10-01 Thread Paul Lesniewski
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Chris Hilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott Haneda wrote: >>> 3 seconds just to tell you how many messages there are. Now imagine how >>> long it takes to fetch headers. >> >> I know, I feel it is slow as well. Your response doesn't indicate you understood what

Re: [SM-USERS] performance issues that seemingly can not be solved.

2008-10-01 Thread Chris Hilts
Scott Haneda wrote: >> 3 seconds just to tell you how many messages there are. Now imagine how >> long it takes to fetch headers. > > I know, I feel it is slow as well. To better help me get this into > perspective, what hardware examples can you give me as for cpu and > drives, and how many mes

Re: [SM-USERS] performance issues that seemingly can not be solved.

2008-10-01 Thread Scott Haneda
On Oct 1, 2008, at 6:06 PM, Chris Hilts wrote: > Scott Haneda wrote: >> Hello, I am running SquirrelMail 1.4.16, against EIMS Mail Server >> which support IMAP. >> >> SquirrelMail is very slow at loading mailboxes. EIMS stores mail >> in a >> single file, like UW IMAP server. If I telnet into t

Re: [SM-USERS] performance issues that seemingly can not be solved.

2008-10-01 Thread Scott Haneda
On Oct 1, 2008, at 6:06 PM, Chris Hilts wrote: > Scott Haneda wrote: >> Hello, I am running SquirrelMail 1.4.16, against EIMS Mail Server >> which support IMAP. >> >> SquirrelMail is very slow at loading mailboxes. EIMS stores mail >> in a >> single file, like UW IMAP server. If I telnet into t

[SM-USERS] performance issues that seemingly can not be solved.

2008-10-01 Thread Scott Haneda
Hello, I am running SquirrelMail 1.4.16, against EIMS Mail Server which support IMAP. SquirrelMail is very slow at loading mailboxes. EIMS stores mail in a single file, like UW IMAP server. If I telnet into the server, and select a mailbox, one in which I feel it is not that large, perhaps

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance tuning, large mailboxes and PMDF

2005-05-06 Thread Becky L. Sabino, LAN Administrator
> Becky L. Sabino, LAN Administrator wrote: > > Just FYI: > > > > > > I installed 1.5.1 and here were the results: > > > > > > 1.5.1 > > From the time I clicked login until folder list displayed 55 > > seconds From the time I clicked login until inbox messages displayed 4 > > min 44 seconds > > >

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance tuning, large mailboxes and PMDF

2005-05-03 Thread Paul Lesneiwski
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Re: [SM-USERS] Performance tuning, large mailboxes and PMDF

2005-05-03 Thread Marc Groot Koerkamp
Becky L. Sabino, LAN Administrator wrote: > Just FYI: > > > I installed 1.5.1 and here were the results: > > > 1.5.1 > From the time I clicked login until folder list displayed 55 > seconds From the time I clicked login until inbox messages displayed 4 > min 44 seconds > > 1.4.3 > From the time I

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance tuning, large mailboxes and PMDF

2005-05-03 Thread Marc Groot Koerkamp
Chris Hilts wrote: >> Thanks for the quick reply, I'll give 1.5.1 a shot. Any >> guestimate on when it might be released as a stable version? Believe me, >> I >> would LOVE to switch to a different IMAP server, I've been begging to go >> to sendmail for years with no success. *sigh*. I'll let y

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance tuning, large mailboxes and PMDF

2005-05-03 Thread Becky L. Sabino, LAN Administrator
Just FYI: I installed 1.5.1 and here were the results: 1.5.1 From the time I clicked login until folder list displayed 55 seconds From the time I clicked login until inbox messages displayed 4 min 44 seconds 1.4.3 From th

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance tuning, large mailboxes and PMDF

2005-05-03 Thread Chris Hilts
> Thanks for the quick reply, I'll give 1.5.1 a shot. Any > guestimate on when it might be released as a stable version? Believe me, I > would LOVE to switch to a different IMAP server, I've been begging to go > to sendmail for years with no success. *sigh*. I'll let you know what > impact 1.5.1

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance tuning, large mailboxes and PMDF

2005-05-03 Thread Tony Earnshaw
tir, 03.05.2005 kl. 20.16 skrev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > My configuration: > > SM v 1.4.4 > XAMPP 1.4.13 > Apache 2.0.53 > PHP 4.3.11 > MySQL 4.1.11 > eAccelerator 0.9.2a > running on Fedora Core 3 > hp proliant DL360 > 2GB RAM > intel xeon 3.6GHz CPU > > Our IMAP server is PMDF V6.2 runnin

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance tuning, large mailboxes and PMDF

2005-05-03 Thread Becky L. Sabino, LAN Administrator
Thanks for the quick reply, I'll give 1.5.1 a shot. Any guestimate on when it might be released as a stable version? Believe me, I would LOVE to switch to a different IMAP server, I've been begging to go to sendmail for years with no success. *sigh*. I'll

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance tuning, large mailboxes and PMDF

2005-05-03 Thread Marc Groot Koerkamp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My configuration: > > > SM v 1.4.4 > XAMPP 1.4.13 > Apache 2.0.53 > PHP 4.3.11 > MySQL 4.1.11 > eAccelerator 0.9.2a running on Fedora Core 3 hp proliant DL360 2GB RAM > intel xeon 3.6GHz CPU > > Our IMAP server is PMDF V6.2 running on VMS > > > SqirrelMail runs like a c

[SM-USERS] Performance tuning, large mailboxes and PMDF

2005-05-03 Thread sabino
My configuration: SM v 1.4.4 XAMPP 1.4.13 Apache 2.0.53 PHP 4.3.11 MySQL 4.1.11 eAccelerator 0.9.2a running on Fedora Core 3 hp proliant DL360 2GB RAM intel xeon 3.6GHz CPU Our IMAP server is PMDF V6.2 running on VMS SqirrelMail runs like a charm on smaller mailboxes but is v-e-r-y slow

Re: [SM-USERS] performance

2005-05-03 Thread Tony Earnshaw
tir, 03.05.2005 kl. 13.13 skrev Jerry Mersel: > For the longest time I had this problem of performance when using > the squirrelmail server. I finally found the problem, and I hope that > it can help someone else. > The problem was browscap.ini. After removing this file and its use via > php.i

[SM-USERS] performance

2005-05-03 Thread Jerry Mersel
Hi: For the longest time I had this problem of performance when using the squirrelmail server. I finally found the problem, and I hope that it can help someone else. The problem was browscap.ini. After removing this file and its use via php.ini the performance improved. I found this surprising s

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance on huge mail folders

2004-11-13 Thread Jonathan Angliss
Hello Fran, On Wednesday, November 10, 2004, Fran Fabrizio wrote... > I have SM running on the same host as my Courier-IMAP install and I > have also installed imapproxy, enabled server side sorting and > server side threading. All of these things did help - I went from > not being able to pull u

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance on huge mail folders

2004-11-12 Thread Fran Fabrizio
another thing to consider is that if you were just accessing the maildir for the first time, your imap server has to build its internal cache (courier does this, I know). Try accessing the folder with another imap client first, and then see how it fares with squirrelmail. I have zero issues w

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance on huge mail folders

2004-11-12 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Friday 12 November 2004 06:05 am, Tomas Kuliavas wrote: > > Tomas Kuliavas wrote: > >>I think bottleneck is in your filesystem. Compare directory access times > >>on different filesystems. Find the one that can access directories with > >>many small files faster. > > > > This evening I set up a

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance on huge mail folders

2004-11-12 Thread Tomas Kuliavas
> Tomas Kuliavas wrote: > >> >>I think bottleneck is in your filesystem. Compare directory access times >>on different filesystems. Find the one that can access directories with >>many small files faster. >> >> > This evening I set up a test. I used the same Maildir ~850MB in size > with 27k mess

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance on huge mail folders

2004-11-11 Thread Fran Fabrizio
Tomas Kuliavas wrote: I think bottleneck is in your filesystem. Compare directory access times on different filesystems. Find the one that can access directories with many small files faster. This evening I set up a test. I used the same Maildir ~850MB in size with 27k messages in my INBOX in

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance on huge mail folders

2004-11-11 Thread Tomas Kuliavas
> I have SM running on the same host as my Courier-IMAP install and I have > also installed imapproxy, enabled server side sorting and server side > threading. All of these things did help - I went from not being able to > pull up a folder with 27k messages in it to being able to bring it up in >

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance on huge mail folders

2004-11-10 Thread p dont think
I have SM running on the same host as my Courier-IMAP install and I have also installed imapproxy, enabled server side sorting and server side threading. All of these things did help - I went from not being able to pull up a folder with 27k messages in it to being able to bring it up in around

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance on huge mail folders

2004-11-10 Thread Ean Kingston
p dont think wrote: I have SM running on the same host as my Courier-IMAP install and I have also installed imapproxy, enabled server side sorting and server side threading. All of these things did help - I went from not being able to pull up a folder with 27k messages in it to being able to

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance on huge mail folders

2004-11-10 Thread p dont think
I have SM running on the same host as my Courier-IMAP install and I have also installed imapproxy, enabled server side sorting and server side threading. All of these things did help - I went from not being able to pull up a folder with 27k messages in it to being able to bring it up in aroun

[SM-USERS] Performance on huge mail folders

2004-11-10 Thread Fran Fabrizio
I have SM running on the same host as my Courier-IMAP install and I have also installed imapproxy, enabled server side sorting and server side threading. All of these things did help - I went from not being able to pull up a folder with 27k messages in it to being able to bring it up in around

[SM-USERS] Performance problem

2004-10-25 Thread Vassili Lazutin
Hello everybody! Initialy by mistake I posted this message to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] sorry for that. I don't know how to move/delete it from there so I am posting it here again. Squirrelmail works slow. Especially for loging process. But the strange thing is when I restart Apache it's working fine

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance issues with large shared accounts

2004-07-23 Thread John Madden
> Hmmm... My guess is that the problem is due to the load sharing + the > fact that multiple users access the Maildir at once, were it only 1 > server accessing the Maildir for all 20 users, it could eventually cache > the whole Maildir, or at the very least, you'd get a lot more cache > hits. Bu

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance issues with large shared accounts

2004-07-23 Thread Jay Lee
> Courier = famd (yay SGI). RedHat's (RHEL3, RHAS3) famd is demonstrably > broken, or I'm a turd. So install the SGI famd source (as I did). > www.sgi.com and search for linux or open source. This would probably help if clients were using Thunderbird or Outlook but I don't think Squirrelmail makes

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance issues with large shared accounts

2004-07-23 Thread Jay Lee
Ronan said: > Hello, > > I'd appreciate any help or suggestions anyone would have with the > following... > > I have 2 servers (both Dell PE2650s, 2GB RAM, Dual Xeon) running RHEL 3 > ES (with latest updates), and the latest Red Hat supplied Squirrelmail > (squirrelmail-1.4.3-0.e3.1) and Courier I

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance issues with large shared accounts

2004-07-23 Thread Tony Earnshaw
fre, 23.07.2004 kl. 18.43 skrev Ronan: > I'd appreciate any help or suggestions anyone would have with the > following... > > I have 2 servers (both Dell PE2650s, 2GB RAM, Dual Xeon) running RHEL 3 > ES (with latest updates), and the latest Red Hat supplied Squirrelmail > (squirrelmail-1.4.3-0.e

Re: [SM-USERS] Performance issues with large shared accounts

2004-07-23 Thread Tomas Kuliavas
> Hello, > > > I'd appreciate any help or suggestions anyone would have with the > following... > > I have 2 servers (both Dell PE2650s, 2GB RAM, Dual Xeon) running RHEL 3 > ES (with latest updates), and the latest Red Hat supplied Squirrelmail > (squirrelmail-1.4.3-0.e3.1) and Courier IMAP (co

[SM-USERS] Performance issues with large shared accounts

2004-07-23 Thread Ronan
Hello, I'd appreciate any help or suggestions anyone would have with the following... I have 2 servers (both Dell PE2650s, 2GB RAM, Dual Xeon) running RHEL 3 ES (with latest updates), and the latest Red Hat supplied Squirrelmail (squirrelmail-1.4.3-0.e3.1) and Courier IMAP (courier-imap-3.0.4).

[SM-USERS] Performance generating the folder list pane

2004-07-12 Thread Jonathan Ives
Hi, I am using SM 1.4.3.a on Redhat ES3.0 against the Oracle Collaboration Suite IMAP4 server. If you are not familiar witnthis it's an IMAP4 server where the store is the Oracle database. I have used a number of IMAP4 clients without problem. Generally SM works really well, and I'm really impr

[SM-USERS] Performance-Problem with Squirrelmail

2003-10-15 Thread Norbert Eder
Hi there!   I am using squirrelmail with postfix and cyrus on a suse-linux-machine with apache. The problem i have, is the performance. I am waiting about 2 minutes until the pages is loaded. The load on the server is increasing a little bit, not really a problem. So i am asking where the

[SM-USERS] Performance problem with squirrelmail

2003-10-15 Thread Norbert Eder
Hi there!   I am using squirrelmail with postfix and cyrus on a suse-linux-machine with apache. The problem i have, is the performance. I am waiting about 2 minutes until the pages is loaded. The load on the server is increasing a little bit, not really a problem. So i am asking where the

[SM-USERS] performance with squirellmail 1.4.1 / courier

2003-08-27 Thread Paeddy
HI all,   i know that there is a FAQ where some performance related facts are described but i still would like to ask something.   first the details to my system   webmail  :    squirellmail 1.4.1 mailserver    :    courier 0.43.1 cpu : amd-k6 400 MHz memory  :  192 MB

Re: [SM-USERS] performance with squirellmail 1.4.1 / courier

2003-08-27 Thread Chris Hilts
> webmail :squirellmail 1.4.1 > mailserver:courier 0.43.1 > cpu : amd-k6 400 MHz > memory : 192 MB > disk: 20 GB > apache: Server version: Apache/2.0.47 You're running 6 domains, web services, PHP, mail services on THAT machine? No wonder you