Large dirs [Was: Re: Clustering and replication]

[Janne Peltonen]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 11:01:03AM +0100, Simon Matter wrote:
> > This might be a problem, since we have some users that really have 10000
> > messages in their INBOX. Although it seems that Cyrus itself cannot cope
> > with this either... in our current, non-clustering setup. But then, it's
> > an old version.
> Interesting, I have some folders with ~100'000 messages and cyrus handles
> it very nice. Did you say you have a problem with 10'000 messages in a
> mailbox?

I didn't inspect the case at all closely, but yes, there was one user
with some 10'000 messages in one folder experiencing slowdown, and after
I suggested him to clean up his INBOX, there were no more complaints.
But it was (is) really an old version of Cyrus on a very busy server.


--Janne