[Dovecot] M-Box benchmark

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun Mar 18 14:17:43 EET 2007


On 18.3.2007, at 7.40, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:

> Switching from UW-IMAP/mbox to dovecot/mbox has even a large  
> performance gain (I would say around 10-100, on large folders  
> because of the index files.). Also deleting is much faster.
>
> I haven't benchmarked it but it is definitly much, much faster.
> (That was the reason I left UW-IMAP).

I've heard of load average dropping from 100 to 0.02 :)
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