Chris Hilts said:
>> I grabbed a large folder from a user's mailbox and used it for
>> testing. The test folder has 2026 messages, is 170 MB large, and
>> takes approximately 30 seconds from initial mailbox click to final
>> html render. I'm using courier imap server with maildir.
>
> Make sure you have server-side sorting and server-side threading
> enabled in conf.pl, assuming Courier supports both. (I believe it
> does..)

I have both server-side sorting and server-side threading enabled. I did
some further testing. For comparison purposes I have a mid-sized mailbox
with 595 messages that's 5 MB large and takes 4-5 seconds to load.

I have one folder with 17 messages in it at 11 MB each for a total of
203 MB. From the click on the folder name to the display of the messages
takes ten seconds plus three seconds for the "page load throbber" in
galeon to stop.

I have one folder with 60000 (60K) messages in it at .3 K each for a
total of 248 MB. From the click on the folder name to the display of the
messages takes 99 seconds plus 7 seconds for the throbber to stop. I
also see a message at the bottom of my page "Fatal error: Maximum
execution time of 60 seconds exceeded in Unknown on line 0".

So it seems large messages incur some overhead, but the biggest overhead
is caused by a large message count. Both of these factors are of concern
for my user with the large folder above (2026 messages, 170 MB). Is there
any way to speed this up? Is anyone able to get these kinds of message
counts and/or folder sizes without significant penalties in folder load
and display times?

-- 
Kurt Yoder
Sport & Health network administrator





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