Performance

The performance of PMMail Archiver will depend upon several factors. Some of them are: Speed of your computer, memory available, number of files to archive.

An exact number cannot be specified, however I am listing some performance statistics below which will give you an idea of the time it will take to archive your files:


Computer: P-133, 80 meg. memory

OS: OS/2 Warp 3

Files to be archived: Multiple accounts, total of 5114 messages.

Action Time used
Reading the directories. Lots of disk activity.

1:40

Zip processing file list, Very little disk activity

13:00

Zip creating zip file, high disk activity

4:30

Rewriting bag files

0:25

Deleting archived files

4:00