From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: anothy@cosym.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Can I use mail to check outside accounts ?
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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 01:21:58 -0400
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/// Incentive to keep your mailbox small.

er, yeah, but that's often not an option. i've seen clueless
users mail two copies of Netscape to 100 people on a workgroup
server. upas/fs would grand to a halt in such a condition, and
the memory hit on the server would be tremendous. i use
upas/fs every day, as my only source of mail, but it seems
like the current implementation - particularly the imap
server - isn't designed to scale up particularly well. the
huge delays on startup are particularly a problem for imap;
i've seen clients either time out or retry before upas is
done reading the mailbox. and if they retry (or have the
"check my mail every N minutes" set to a very small N), these
can stack up. i've not kept very careful track, but i
believe every crash of my CPU server i've seen this year
has been (or likely so, anyway) due to Upas' poor
behaviour under stress.
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