APC added a nice seat-of-the-pants increase in speed for me.
I wonder if we had a small benchmark script for roundcube I could post before and after results.
This would allow people to test their configuration and determine where speed bottlenecks are.
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:30:13 +0200, till klimpong@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/12/07, kbyrd-roundcube@memcpy.com kbyrd-roundcube@memcpy.com
wrote:
I may be biased (:D) - but for myself RC is a lot, lot faster than Squirrelmail.
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I wasn't trying to bash roundcube, I'm using it as my main interface. I only user squirrelmail now when someone says: "It's prettier, is it faster?". I bet I'm not getting as much IMAP improvement since both of my setups access through localhost.
I didn't read your email as bashing - more a feedbacky user experience. So no sweats! :-)
I'll try APC (from previous responder). Not counting that, does my idea have any merit? Regardless of how fast roundcube is, it seems loading message header while the user is busy looking at other messages can only help. I like to set my "rows per page" to 100 (or at least 50) and that takes time regardless of which front-end I'm using. Of course, it may not be possible to render a row then update later once the info comes back from IMAP.
I (think) am using eAccelerator on both servers. I am not really sure though - on the Squirrelmail install for sure. If you try APC, please post your experiences to the list as this is also on my list of things to try out and I haven't really found time yet.
In regard to your idea - of course that makes sense. One could probably implement that behavior using some ajax calls in the back to update the interface and so forth. That would probably help.
I've also spent some time reading about IMAP push (imap connection is left open and the server says "i got something new"), but I am not sure if one can implement that in PHP - especially since you'd need it to act like a daemon and with forking (on the module and Apache 1.3) vs. threading - no idea.
I also wouldn't want it to depend too much on the webserver.
I have no real experience with c/cpp since I gave up on that maybe 10 years ago, so I wouldn't be able to implement a daemon poller. I just know that PHP is not suitable for the job. ;-)
By the way, I have a third install of RC at work, but without any cacher enabled. It feeds off of a mailserver (Communigate Pro) on the same LAN (Gbit) and it's pretty speedy. But of course it could always be faster!
Cheers, Till