Indexing Mail faster

[Kevin Laurie]

Dear Thomas,
You do seem to have some computing power.
I think that does help.
Thanks
Kevin A.


On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Thomas Leuxner <tlx at leuxner.net> wrote:

> * Peter Hodur <petehodur at gmail.com> 2015.01.29 05:25:
>
> > > With a current version of Dovecot a search is pretty fast _without_
> using
> > > external indexes. I have a view defined (virtual plugin) with around
> 22.000
> > > messages in it, and searching the full view only takes 2.5 seconds:
> > >
> > >
> > hmmm, could you please tell me more about your setup? What storage format
> > do you use? Maildir or? What is the cumulative size of your messages?
>
>
> Although the question was not formatted/quoted correctly I guess it is
> more towards myself as it explicitely speaks of a non-FTS setup:
>
> $ dmesg | grep smpboot
> [    0.000000] smpboot: Allowing 64 CPUs, 56 hotplug CPUs
> [    0.148600] smpboot: CPU0: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 v3 @ 3.30GHz
> (fam: 06, model: 3c, stepping: 03)
> [    0.300030] smpboot: Total of 8 processors activated (52677.72 BogoMIPS)
>
> The volume providing the mail root is using ext4 on an MD mirror (with
> CRYPT and LVM overhead):
>
>
> $ lsblk
> [...]
> └─sda3                        8:3    0   ...  0 part
>   └─md2                       9:2    0   ...  0 raid1
>     └─crypt1 (dm-0)         253:0    0   ...  0 crypt
>       └─vg0-vmail (dm-11)   253:11   0   ...  0 lvm   /var/vmail
>
> $ doveconf -n | head -3
> # 2.2.15 (7557234ac0f4): /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
> # Pigeonhole version 0.4.6
> # OS: Linux 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 x86_64 Debian 7.8
>
> I'm using unspectacular 7,200rpm SATA drives and mdbox.
>