That's actually quite a lot. Consider you run 100k+ mailboxes (1GB each) and you would move to Dovecot this will be a huge chunk out of your storage. Is using dovecot index files really that much faster than running ":INDEX=MEMORY" ? Where could I find some benchmarks about this?
Cheers,
Jan
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: dovecot-bounces+jan.vandenberg=isp.solcon.nl@dovecot.org [mailto:dovecot-bounces+jan.vandenberg=isp.solcon.nl@dovecot.org] Namens Luuk Verzonden: vrijdag 8 februari 2008 17:19 Aan: dovecot@dovecot.org Onderwerp: Re: [Dovecot] Expected size of index-files?
Tobias Balle-Petersen schreef:
Hello...
Im considering moving my index-files to a RAID1. How big do these files get? What should I plan for?
Thanks, Tobias
since 1 july 2007 i store all mails to this list in 1 folder (Maildir-format)
the size of this (and the indexes) is: 31M cur 80K dovecot.index 6.8M dovecot.index.cache 44K dovecot.index.log 136K dovecot.index.log.2 4.0K dovecot-keywords 164K dovecot-uidlist 4.0K new 4.0K tmp
so, on average maybe 20%-30% of the size of your messages ?