[Dovecot] Benchmarking

Mick T sysadmin at webdock.com.au
Mon Jan 29 04:53:55 UTC 2007


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> So ext3 is even faster than reiserfs..
>
> I suppose all those benchmarks should be run again with ext3.
>   

An optimization for ext3 is to make sure b-trees are enabled by 
formatting with  -O dir_index

This improves performance for directories with many small files in them, 
like maildirs

Mick



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