on 5-28-2009 9:36 AM Timo Sirainen spake the following: > On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 02:07 -0700, robforrest wrote: >> What is happening is that as users log in (via thunderbird), they are shown >> the contents of their mailboxes. However, when they try and access a given >> email, they get no response even if they wait upwards of 10 minutes. I >> believe that the problem has arisen from their huge inboxes, several users >> have inboxes in excess of 4GB. > > mbox_very_dirty_syncs = yes would probably make these mailboxes usable > without having to split anything or convert to Maildir. That requires > Dovecot v1.0+ of course. > The indexing improvements in 1.0 would probably help a lot also. I have several large mboxes and also some gzipped log storage boxes and 1.1 is fairly speedy with them. A full re-index in thunderbird takes right at a minute with a 6gb gzipped box I just tested.
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