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Re: Mark messages in mailbox as read without massive performance hit?!



* Derek Martin <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2005-12-29 05:20 -0500]:
> Also worth noting you're using high-end hardware.  500MB/15s = 33MB/s.
> That's pretty fast.  Are you using raid?  Certain configurations of
> raid will make reads quite fast, and writes comparatively slow.
> Maildir will have an advantage here because it writes very little
> data.  Opening files involves lots of reading, but little or no
> writing.

It's kind of a raid. But the write speed is about the half read speed,
this can't be the only reason.

Nicolas

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