slow

[Alain Spineux]

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Iv Ray <pobox at verysmall.org> wrote:
> I have been using Postfix + Cyrus IMAP on FreeBSD for about 2-3 years
> and the performance has always been good.
>
> The last months, however, the speed somehow deteriorated.
> Squirrelmail, for instance, takes longer than usual to go to display
> the folders and messages after login, and to go to next page (sorting
> is off) - 20-30 seconds. E-mail client like OS X Mail takes also
> longer to open IMAP accounts on this server, than on other servers.

Is-it only a connection time ? And then it's working fine ?
Maybe an entropy problem !
Do you have more user using SSL connection with your server (HTTPS, IMAPS) ?

>
> The server is 2 GHz with 2 GB RAM and 2 x SCSI HDDs in RAID 1, load
> average is normally around zero. The server hosts less than 100 e-mail
> accounts, most with less than 10 MB of e-mails, and a few with 1-2 GB
> of e-mails. These parameters haven't really changed over the last 2-3
> years, so I do not expect the delay to come form there.
>
> I did "rebuild" of all mailboxes a couple of times, but without success.
>
> Could someone give me a hint what might cause the slowness and/or
> possible debugging steps.
>
> Thank you very much,
> Iv
>
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