[Dovecot] Best location for indexes?

[Brandon Lamb]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Curtis Maloney <cmaloney at cardgate.net> wrote:
> On 05/11/10 16:05, Brandon Lamb wrote:
>>
>> I cant seem to find anything via a google search, so if this has been
>> answered I apologize.
>>
>> I am wondering if INDEX=MEMORY is going to give the best performance
>> versus files? I have a server with directly attached storage, 8 gigs
>> of ram, about 500 gigs of data.
>
>> I am ok with losing and having to rebuild the indexes on a reboot as
>> the last uptime was over 200 days
>
> Last I checked, INDEX=MEMORY rebuilds the index on demand, on each
> _connection_.
>
> Your best bet is to keep the indices on disk.  Certainly, if you can keep
> them on a separate spindle from the mail store, you may find a performance
> improvement through parallelism and lack of seek clash.
>
> --
> Curtis Maloney

Oh damnit haha. I thought it saved it in memory like a ramdisk or some
kind of implementation like that, not only the duration of a
connection =\

Back to disk then!

Thanks! =)