[Dovecot] M-Box benchmark

[Javier Henderson]

On Mar 17, 2007, at 2:02 PM, Jonathan Stewart wrote:

> Maykel Moya wrote:
>> A friend of mine passed me this[1] cause I'm recommending him  
>> Dovecot.
> [snip]
>> [1] http://www.isode.com/whitepapers/mbox-benchmark.html
>
> My first questions about this test are what version of dovecot was  
> used, did they take into account the fact that dovecot has to build  
> indexes? A 10s ramp-up time seems rather short for that.  What kind  
> of auth backend was used for each product and did they even attempt  
> any kind of performance tuning on anything other than their  
> product?  This "whitepaper" comes across as extremely biased and  
> very short on important information.

It seems to me that it was a vendor sponsored test, so one would  
think they designed the testing criteria to favor their product.

-jav