Hi, Gac,

 When you say " When I run Pegasus locally on this old PC, performance is much the same." do you mean much the same as slow (like me) or much the same as in zippy like your i5?

 I did defrag early this year. The system is about in line with your old machine, a Celeron running Win2000.  I have a folder per customer, that is why there are so many. It sounds like you also have a slow search across folders and I think that may be at the root of the problem. I had resisted archiving them because of the sheer simplicity of being able to search for some unknown client-wide as it were. We keep the new mail folder generally down to one screen or less, moving stuff into the client folders as soon as we have generated some paper to clue us to who, when, what. When we forget something then it is time for an all-client folders search, usually restricted to a specific time frame - this week, this month, this year, whatever.

If I use the system monitor (Ctl-Alt-Del) and look at the memory used and the processing power used during these search operations, neither indicate that they are running out of steam. Hence my sense that it is a hdd bottleneck - and may you not be suffering from the same on your mail store server?

 Thanks for the input.

 Ian

Hello,  We have had Pegasus Mail running for many years. There are now over 3600 folders and a huge amount of mail stored overall.

 When searching folders for a phrase, even over just the past years mail, the system really struggles and we can go make a coffee. Similarly when starting up we can see the folders being counted and it is coffee time again. We recently updated Pegasus to to the latest version and amazingly the start up was very fast, the folder count whizzed by too fast to read, but after a day or so we were back to the usual slow performance.

 Yes, it is an old machine with limited processing power but ample memory. The memory and processor are not unduly stretched when doing these functions so we have thought that it is probably also connected to a  slow hdd. We are going to replace this but wonder if there are any suggestions regarding the spec of a new machine. Will todays base machine with a core I3 processor and a sata hdd be enough?

 many thanks for any suggestions or pointers to consider before we buy

 Ian

I am using a Fujitsu laptop running Win 8 Pro 64-bit, the core processor is an i3 2328M at 2.2 GHz.   There is a SATA connector for an external HD, but I have not used it so far.    The internal drive has a  Serial ATA interface.  The PM is the latest v. 4.63.   I have some 2-3,000 messages in in a number of trays and folders, the size of PMAIL\MAIL is about 420 MB.

Hope that helps

Rodney Fry

Ian, that's a lot of folders, perhaps some could be archived?  What you intend to buy should do the job admirably, but I would have thought your existing system should be more responsive unless it is much slower than mine.

I run Win7 on a first generation core I5 as my main PC. My email folder is 18.7gig, I have 142 folders, startup is about 10 seconds.

But my mail store is on the network served up by an old slow Celeron 2.4 running XP in 512kb RAM with an old 100gig IDE HD.   When I run Pegasus locally on this old PC, performance is much the same.

I suffered major slow downs some years ago, so I did 2 things.  I stopped storing large amounts of new mail in the new mail folder.  As soon as I've looked at it (even in preview) it goes off into 0main (this way the folder for most recent mail is always near the top of the tree), and I removed all filters. To search, I only ever search on the current folder - I have tried searching all folders, but I had time to watch a movie while it did it.  The other thing you should do if you haven't recently is defrag the HD, on my system (running for over 10 years) this helped a lot.  I prefer defraggler over the windows defrag.

Maybe an upgrade can be avoided [:)]

Hello, and thanks for the info.

 For the record I have about 8500 emails and this totals about 1.9Gig  which I see it a lot compared to you, but not when compared to gac who posted after you.

 The odd thing was the day of very fast action after installing the new version of Pmail. Nobody has commented on that and there is something odd there.

 Perseveringly yours

Ian