Actually I already was using the "default" sort. However I tried it with a clean set of prefs, but this didn't seem to increase the page load speed.
David Ehle said: > Kurt, > > I'm using a similar setup w/ courier and SM. It takes about 10 seconds > to bring up my inbox folder that contains about 9000 messages. We had a > similar exprience to the one you described a while back with extremely > long loads and timeouts. After some discussion on the list it was > suggested that the problem was comming from SM's sorting of messages. > Try removing your SM user pref file and see if the performance > increases. When SM tries to sort by date/priority/ect rather than > relying exclusivly on the mailserver for sorting we seemed to run into > trouble. Allowing the default order recieved seemed to work the best. > > Good luck. > > David. > > On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Kurt Yoder wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek >> Welcome to geek heaven. >> http://thinkgeek.com/sf >> -- >> squirrelmail-users mailing list >> List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> List Archives: >> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users -- Kurt Yoder Sport & Health network administrator tel: 703-245-2708 cel: 703-929-3247 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
