IMAP select is so slow!? -- do I need to change database

[Emilio Recio]

Su Li wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder why cyrus imap can only do 3-4 select in one second.
> 
> I have installed cyrus-imapd-2.1.8, db-4.0.14, cyrus-sasl-2.1.7. The machine
> is a dual CPU red head Linux 7.2 with 2 G memory. I have 15,000 user's on my
> machine and each user have 100 emails.  

Try referencing the IMAP server as:

{server.host.com:143}

If you don't use ':143' the imap2000c library (and clients written with 
that library, ie: php, and pine) will try to do an RPC type call to it 
(RSH i think).

-Elmo