[Dovecot] Best (fastest + most stable) search config...

[Stan Hoeppner]

Timo Sirainen put forth on 11/4/2010 6:24 PM:
> On 4.11.2010, at 23.09, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> 
>> That shows that mdbox is twice as fast as maildir for uncached searches,
>> which I'm guessing are the majority of searches.  I'd really be
>> interested in seeing numbers for mbox as well.
> 
> Here's a way to do it in Linux:
> 
> 1. Fill up the mailbox with messages:
> 
> imaptest logout=0 - append=100,50 msgs=10000 user=testaccount
> 
> When it finishes, imaptest goes to infinite loop and you have to kill -9 it. I guess I should fix that some day.
> 
> 2. Flush page cache: echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
> 
> 3. time doveadm search mailbox inbox text asdfasd
> 
> After 3 the mailbox should be cached, so you can run it again. Get imaptest from http://imapwiki.org/ImapTest
> 
> In non-Linux step 2 can be achieved by rebooting. :)

Thanks for the tip Timo.  But it wouldn't really do me any good as my
system specs are different from yours.  Thus the results don't directly
compare.  Unfortunately I don't have a test system available to do all
the mailbox types.  I can only test mbox on my production system.  That
is, if imaptest will work against 1.2.x.  The instructions seem to state
2.0.x is needed.

I guess I was under the assumption you have a test machine where you
could knock out tests of all 4 mailbox types pretty easily.  I guess I
was wrong.  :(

-- 
Stan