[Dovecot] More Benchmarks, and a question about indexing
Anthony Wendell Kay
tkay at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Wed Feb 18 18:18:28 EET 2004
On 02/18 08:09, Rick Johnson wrote:
> Perhaps I just missed something - but what was used to benchmark? IMHO?
> I'm curious as I wouldn't mind trying to benchmark (in general) my
> Maildir setup. Granted, I don't have an mbox comoparison anymore for the
> same machine, but it would be an interesting one none the less.
If you go to my site (which is actually my public Subversion source repository),
you can take a look. The page explains how I did the benchmarks in great detail,
and every script name in the tables is a link to the actual Perl script that
did the test.
I wrote a couple of the benchmarks based on IMAP traffic that I sniffed from
both IMHO and SquirrelMail, but the benchmarks themselves did the stressing
using Perl scripts.
> Perhaps there are other (political?) reasons
> for sticking w/ mbox, however.
Yep. That, and our servers are currently Solaris and are using a filesystem
format that is horribly slow in dealing with directories (flat instead of
B-Tree)...I am adding benchmarks for other formats (including maildir and
cyrus) as soon as I can get to them.
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