From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Feb 22 11:04:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA24908 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:04:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uranus.planet-three.com (homer.duff-beer.com [194.207.51.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA24903 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:04:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scot@poptart.org) Received: from localhost (scot@localhost) by uranus.planet-three.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA25341; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 19:03:22 GMT Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 19:03:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Scot Elliott To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: popper slow In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980222050452.00729710@rustbelt.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm having similar problems with the imap server too... It used to be very quick but recently suddenly started to take in the region of a minute to connect. I'm using Pine and Netscape as clients - and I'm also having problems with largeish attachments. Any ideas? Scot. On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 05:04:52 -0600 > From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" > To: isp@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: popper slow > > > Recently installed the popper port (qpopper 2.41beta1) and find that it hangs or is real slow and sporadic if a moderately large message, say 35K, is in the mailbox. It doesn't matter if the total mail is 20 messages for 100K or if I have almost 1M of mail. > > Rather odd, since I'm doing nothing fancy with it. > > The inital parsing is quick. > > Running 2.2.5 on a P166 w/64MB, several disks, with near nothing for load and connecting via 128 ISDN, but is the same on the network. > > Tempted to back off to 2.4, but don't feel like hacking the port, yet. > > On a slower system with an older version I can pull almost any size message without a hitch. > > > I've also noticed that it doesn't clean the lock files. > Or is that a feature? > At least it doesn't prevent a new connection. > > > > Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking > jeff@mountin.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scot Elliott (scot@poptart.org) | Work: +44 (0)1344 899401 PGP fingerprint: FCAE9ED3A234FEB59F8C7F9DDD112D | Home: +44 (0)181 8961019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public key available by finger at: finger scot@poptart.org or at: http://www.poptart.org/pgpkey.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message