Re: [Dovecot] dbox benchmarks

On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:08 PM, Daniel L. Miller wrote:

I can see where large mailservers would benefit from significant
write performance increases - but unless the server is being
actively limited by the local delivery agent, what other performance
benefits does this offer?

In particular, is there any increase in READ performance by using
dbox?

Should be, since the files are larger there is most likely less
fragmentation. But it's more difficult to benchmark read performance
in a realistic way.

Does it reduce memory consumption at all?

Maybe a bit, but that's probably irrelevant.