[Dovecot] Deduplication active - but how good does it perform?

Nick Rosier nick+dovecot at bunbun.be
Fri Jan 6 13:04:51 EET 2012


Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> I have deduplication active in my first mdbox: type mailbox, but how
> do I find out how well the deduplication works? Is there a way of
> finding out how much disk space I saved (if I saved some :) )?

You could check how much diskspace all the mail uses (or the mail of a
user) and compare it to the quota dovecot reports. But I think you would
need quota's activated for this.

E.g. on my small server used diskquota is 2GB where doveadm quota
reports all users use 3.1GB.



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