[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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