[Dovecot] SSD drives are really fast running Dovecot

[Stan Hoeppner]

Sven Hartge put forth on 1/15/2011 9:29 AM:
> Andrzej Adam Filip <anfi at onet.eu> wrote:
>> Stan Hoeppner <stan at hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
> 
>>> [...] The average size of an email worldwide today is less than 4KB,
>>> less than one typical filesystem block. [...]
> 
>> Do not confuse "unix culture" of mostly plain text only email messages
>> with "MS Junk" culture of overblown formatting with background images
>> company logos as a few image files in every (internal) email.
> 
> I just did a rough analysis of the mail spool of my university (6.000
> users, students and faculty staff, about 10 million mails) and the
> average mail size was at about 96KiB. Last year, this average was at
> 77KiB and in 2009 we were at 62KiB.
> 
> Mails the average size of 4KiB would then have been at a time when
> MIME was not yet invented, I believe. Somewhere in 1994.

No.  You're doing a statistical mean.  You need to be doing median.  The reason
should be obvious.

-- 
Stan