On 279, 10 05, 2008 at 10:38:02PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 21:28 +0200, Luuk wrote:
Last but not least, what gain will i have by using this plugin in combination with Maildir, or will it have more impact when mails are stored in mbox.
I guess it depends on the size of your mails. With mboxes it can be used only with read-only archives, so it's not all that useful. With maildir it can be used transparently with read-write mailboxes. I've no idea what the performance difference or space improvements are. I guess that'll also depend on your system.
I use zlib compressed maildirs on my primary server (12000+ users) and it achieves average compression ratio of 1.8, so if your system is io-bound you can spend some cpu cycles to significantly decrease disk load.
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