dovecot full text search

[Wojciech Puchar]

> Where do write ops take place?

to the xapian index  subdirectory

> Maybe mount that path to a RAM disk rather than looking for anorher solution.
>
not a solution for a problem but workaround


>>
>> Am 10.12.2019 um 15:50 schrieb Wojciech Puchar via dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org>:
>>
>> what FTP module should i use instead of squat that is probably no longer supported or no longer at all?
>>
>> i want to upgrade my dovecot installation. it currently uses squat but i found it often crashes on FTS on large mailboxes.
>>
>> i found "xapian" addon for dovecot but while it works excellent AFTER database is created, i found it need like 20 or so minutes to index less than 10GB of mails and while doing this - generate many tens of megabytes/s constant write traffic on it's database files.
>>
>> Excellent way of killing SSD.
>>
>> something must be broken.
>>
>> my config is
>>
>> plugin {
>>        plugin = fts fts_xapian
>>
>>        fts = xapian
>>        fts_xapian = partial=2 full=20 verbose=0
>>
>>        fts_autoindex = yes
>>        fts_enforced = yes
>>
>> #       fts_autoindex_exclude = \Junk
>> #       fts_autoindex_exclude2 = \Trash
>> }
>>
>>
>> any ideas?
>
>
>