[Dovecot] Best location for indexes?

[Tom Hendrikx]

On 11/05/10 08:29, Brandon Lamb wrote:
> 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! =)
> 

You could implement your own suggestion easily with a disk
implementation, being 'the disk' a tmpfs or similar partition.


Regards,
	Tom