[CentOS] Planning Mail Server (with low resources)

Feizhou feizhou at graffiti.net
Wed Dec 7 13:16:37 UTC 2005


Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
> 
>> You might also want to change Cyrus-imapd to something simpler, like
>> wu-imapd, since it should take less resources from the machine. Then 
>> again,
>> I have very little experience with cyrus, since I either use wu or 
>> courrier.
> 
> 
> Cyrus needs less resources than wu-imapd.  Each time you open mailbox, 
> wu-imapd needs to read it from beggining to the end from the disk, and 
> alocate possibly large chunks of memory as long as you keep connection 
> open.  Cyrus will simply consult its internal database.  Huge difference 
> in speed and load on machine.  So, the slower/older your hardware is, 
> the more inclined you should be to run cyrus.


So less disk overhead. That was a certain plus I gathered from its use 
of indexes.

How does it run though? Threaded? single master daemon with preforked 
children? children disappear after handling one connection/session?



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