slow

[Iv Ray]

On 07.02.2009, at 13:00, Alain Spineux wrote:

> 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 OS X Mail client is slow only to check mail (and presumably - the  
subscribed mailboxes, which are several hundred). Then it works fine.

Squirrelmail is slow on showing every single page (using the previous/ 
next control).

What is "an entropy problem"?

Iv