[Dovecot] dbox benchmarks

[Timo Sirainen]

On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:08 PM, Daniel L. Miller wrote:

> I can see where large mailservers would benefit from significant  
> write performance increases - but unless the server is being  
> actively limited by the local delivery agent, what other performance  
> benefits does this offer?
>
> In particular, is there any increase in READ performance by using  
> dbox?

Should be, since the files are larger there is most likely less  
fragmentation. But it's more difficult to benchmark read performance  
in a realistic way.

>  Does it reduce memory consumption at all?

Maybe a bit, but that's probably irrelevant.