[Dovecot] Expected size of index-files?

[Jan van den Berg]

That's actually quite a lot.
Consider you run 100k+ mailboxes (1GB each) and you would move to
Dovecot this will be a huge chunk out of your storage.
Is using dovecot index files really that much faster than running
":INDEX=MEMORY" ? Where could I find some benchmarks about this?

Cheers,

Jan

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Verzonden: vrijdag 8 februari 2008 17:19
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Onderwerp: Re: [Dovecot] Expected size of index-files?

Tobias Balle-Petersen schreef:
> Hello...
>
> Im considering moving my index-files to a RAID1. How big do these 
> files get? What should I plan for?
>
> Thanks,
> Tobias
>
since 1 july 2007 i store all mails to this list in 1 folder
(Maildir-format)

the size of this (and the indexes) is:
31M     cur
80K     dovecot.index
6.8M    dovecot.index.cache
44K     dovecot.index.log
136K    dovecot.index.log.2
4.0K    dovecot-keywords
164K    dovecot-uidlist
4.0K    new
4.0K    tmp

so, on average maybe 20%-30%  of the size of your messages ?