Re: Huge Inbox

2002-12-18 Thread Rob Siemborski
The cvt_cyrusdb program should do what you need as far as converting the database. You want to be sure your version of cyrus supports skiplist though (if it has cvt_cyrusdb, it does). So its basically: Backup. Rebuild cyrus to have a skiplist mboxlist. Shutdown Cyrus Convert database to skiplist

Re: Huge Inbox

2002-12-18 Thread Wander
Ok, I´m not using skiplist, since at time of compilation I choose de default DB3. But now that I have a production environment for at least 15 months using db3, how can I change it to skiplist, I mean, how could this be done considering de production environment and users happiness! Regards Wa

Re: Huge Inbox

2002-12-18 Thread Wander
Sorry, the platform is Compaq/HP AlphaServer 4100 running Cyrus Imap 2.1.5. Wander ---- Wanderley O. Mendes Software Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +55-12-560-8432 Fax: +55-12-560-8435 INPE/CPTEC - Cachoeira Paulista - São

Re: Huge Inbox

2002-12-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
Jules Agee wrote: You didn't say what platform you're using... if you are running Cyrus with the mailstore on a traditional UFS or ext3 filesystem you might start seeing the filesystem become a bottleneck if a single mailbox has a lot of messages. I have found that setting "noatime" in the fil

Re: Huge Inbox

2002-12-18 Thread Rob Siemborski
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Jay Levitt wrote: > Are you using skiplist for your mboxlist? I have over 7000 messages in my > inbox and it's zippy as can be... This of course depends on what is being slow. If LIST commands are taking a long time, using the skiplist backend (as opposed to Berkeley DB) sh

Re: Huge Inbox

2002-12-18 Thread Jay Levitt
Wander writes: > Some of our users really doesn´t have much time to decrease the INBOX, neither > distributing messages across subfolders or deleting it as fast as could be > necessary and as consequence, theirs INBOX are growing and growing and making > things very slow... Are you using skiplist

Re: Huge Inbox

2002-12-18 Thread Jules Agee
You didn't say what platform you're using... if you are running Cyrus with the mailstore on a traditional UFS or ext3 filesystem you might start seeing the filesystem become a bottleneck if a single mailbox has a lot of messages. We run Cyrus on Linux and also have a lot of users with very full

Huge Inbox

2002-12-18 Thread Wander
Some of our users really doesn´t have much time to decrease the INBOX, neither distributing messages across subfolders or deleting it as fast as could be necessary and as consequence, theirs INBOX are growing and growing and making things very slow... I´m figuring out how many admins could have