Re: [Dovecot] Question about "slow" storage but fast cpus, plenty of ram and dovecot

On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 10:26 +0100, Javier de Miguel Rodrí­guez wrote:

 We can throw more hardware to this, let's see if using memory-based 

indexes (via ramdisk) we get better results. Zlib compression on indexes should be great for this.

Isn't it possible for Linux to compress the ramdisk? It would be a bit difficult to implement zlib compression for indexes for now. In future they'll be written to via lib-fs API, which would make compression possible too by adding a compression middle layer.