Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:59:20PM +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
what is the current state of dovecot? is it worth to upgrade now or wait for some release in the near future?
It's probably not a good idea to use CVS yet. There's a few small bugs (which I'll fix today) and it doesn't yet do any smart decisions on what it should save into cache.
It might work better than 0.99.10, but I'll probably break the index format a few times more before 0.99.11.
I wasted yesterday trying to figure out why Cyrus was faster in simple fetches. Such as fetching UID for 360k mails took a bit over second in Cyrus while Dovecot used two seconds. Annoying :) Probably has something to do with Cyrus printing things directly into stdout while Dovecot copies the data through a couple of buffers.
Anyway, I would really like to know if the new indexing code helps with your load problems. It should use much less disk I/O.
as you know we'd a lot of problem with dovecot at the begining (with stability and the load). now there is one version of dovecot (a cvs around 99.10) which still has a high load, but work both with mozilla and OE6. this's a production system about 300 user so we can't play with it too much. that was the reason why I ask it. try now or wait a bit more? but as I see it's better to wait a bit more... thanks.
-- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"