FWIW - I was also abel to add speed by replacing McAfee Anti-Virus. This added A LOT of spped to my servers running Lyris and Imail.
Travis > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Guy Isabel > Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 11:15 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Painfully slow webmail > > > Len Conrad wrote: > > > I really don't know how any webmail server could read, and > often re-read, > a > > flat file of 2 GB extremely quickly as the user pages through the mbx > > summary screens. sounds miraculous to me. > > Then I'm not alone being in awe! > > > >Support at Ipswitch told us it was our older Seagate SCSI drives, but > > >we just do not buy this. > > > > To read disk fast, you need fast disk. > > > > + fastest, caching SCSI controllers, fast CPU, plenty of RAM > when you have > > a lot of simultaneous webmail users. > > Yes, of course, but as others have pointed out, this will only delay the > inevitable (when the mailboxes grow to say, 100 GB)... The higher up the > corporate ladder, the less technically knowledgeable the users > are. CEOs do > not realize that a mailbox is not an archive and they never > delete anything, > in my experience. > > Jason had a good point in framing the issue of runaway growth: > "Empower" the > users by telling them that they have full control over the speed. > Excellent > spin and p.r. :)) > > > hmm, Imail 5 could display the headers from 2 GB mbx file > instantly? PTL! > > Indeed. But I asked Roger if the mailboxes were actually that > large when he > was using 5.x (still waiting for his reply). > > > Don't know what the version was, but back in 1998, I remember being > > condemned to webmail when I was on the road for a week, and my .mbx > quickly > > hit 4 K msgs. I don't know what that is in MBytes, but it was gawdawful > > slow trying to page through it. > > Lemme see... Assume 20 KB per message, on average. This would yield a > relatively paltry 80 MB mailbox <cough>. > > > Even worse, I couldn't clean out the mbx to keep it small because every > > time, I checked of a bunch of msgs to delete, and then deleted, webmail > > would refuse, saying "delete aborted, mbx has changed" (due to new msgs > > arriving while I was waiting for the webpages to display and do my click > to > > delete futility.) > > Yup. I remember changing a Web template back in 6.x to report > that fact in a > more user-friendly way, but the problem was there, no question about it. > > Guy > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
