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Date:      Wed, 20 Nov 1996 00:29:23 +0100
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        Ville Eerola <ville@vlsi.fi>
Cc:        cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  ports/mail/popclient/patches patch-ac
Message-ID:  <199611192329.AAA00688@campa.panke.de>
In-Reply-To: <199611182358.AA259621528@layout.vlsi.fi>
References:  <199611171936.LAA10949@freefall.freebsd.org> <199611172300.PAA24686@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> <199611180801.JAA18530@ole.cs.tu-berlin.de> <199611182358.AA259621528@layout.vlsi.fi>

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Ville Eerola writes:
>> Argh! Don't do that! fetchmail is terrible slow and the author removed
>> some IMHO essential features.
>
>Tell me more about it. I haven't noticed any slowness of fetchmail,
>but on the other hand I do not (yet) receive the full FreeBSD
>mailing lists on my ISP's address...

Client and server are both on the same machine. FreeBSD 2.1.0.

popclient-3.0b6
30 mails a 3777 bytes
        8.13 real         0.85 user         0.58 sys
transfer rate: 13937 Bytes/sec

5 mails a 102890 bytes
        8.61 real         2.32 user         0.69 sys

transfer rate: 59750 Bytes/sec


fetchmail-1.9, MDA /usr/libexec/mail.local
30 mails a 3777 bytes
       25.16 real         5.93 user        15.07 sys
                                           ^^^^^
transfer rate: 4503 Bytes/sec

5 mails a 102890 bytes
       69.66 real         5.66 user        56.38 sys
                                           ^^^^^
transfer rate: 7385 Bytes/sec

Wolfram



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