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?