On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> wrote:
On 28.1.2012, at 18.13, Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote:
Considering my use case (small number of accounts but alot of emails per account, and I should add that they are mostly small emails, most under 5k, alot under 30k) what mdbox setting would you recommend i start testing with (mdbox_rotate_size and mdbox_rotate_interval).
mdbox_rotate_interval is useful only if you want smaller incremental backups (so files that are backed up no longer change unless messages are deleted). Its default is 0 (I just fixed example-config, which showed it as 1day).
To be honest, the smaller incremental backup part is interesting. That along with auto-gzip of the mdbox files are very interesting for me.
I don't really know about mdbox_rotate_size. It would be nice if someone were to test different values over longer period and report how it affects disk IO.
I was thinking on doing a test with 20MB and 80MB, look at the results and go from there.
Btw, when I migrate my emails from Maildir to mdbox, dsync should take into account the rotate_size parameter. If I want to change the rotate_size parameter, I simply edit the config file, change the parameter (erase the mdbox folder?) and re-run dsync. Is that correct?