[ale] benchmarking imap and squirrelmail

[jknapka at earthlink.net (Joseph A Knapka)]

John Wells wrote:
> 
> David,
> 
> Not yet.  I just finished installing late last night and didn't give it a
> try until this morning from work and I don't have any access from here.
> It's very very slow...loading up the preferences page in squirrel mail takes
> about 2-4 minutes.
> 
> I was surprised at the slowness as well.  It's possible that there may be
> other processes soaking up memory because I just installed debian potato
> fresh yesterday and it's still got default processes going.

Anytime I have a network service that responds incredibly
slowly, my very first thought is, "Someone in this scenario
is trying to do a DNS lookup or reverse lookup, and
failing; or maybe an identd query is failing."

Just a thought, I know nothing about squirrelmail.

Cheers,

-- Joe
    Any OS distinguishable from Windows is not sufficiently broken.

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