[Dovecot] Index files size calculation
Hi guys,
2 or 3 weeks ago, one of you explained how to calculate the size of the index files for an user.
Can somebody explain this again please?
Thx Patrick
On 15.1.2011, at 21.08, Patrick Westenberg wrote:
2 or 3 weeks ago, one of you explained how to calculate the size of the index files for an user.
Someone did? .. It anyway depends on IMAP client and possibly also user. There are no easy ways to calculate it exactly. I think it's usually around 10-20% of mailbox size, but it really depends more on the number of messages than the size of messages.
Timo Sirainen schrieb:
Someone did? .. It anyway depends on IMAP client and possibly also user. There are no easy ways to calculate it exactly. I think it's usually around 10-20% of mailbox size, but it really depends more on the number of messages than the size of messages.
Okay, so what will happen if the storage for index files is full?
On 01/16/2011 04:28 PM, Patrick Westenberg wrote:
Timo Sirainen schrieb:
Someone did? .. It anyway depends on IMAP client and possibly also user. There are no easy ways to calculate it exactly. I think it's usually around 10-20% of mailbox size, but it really depends more on the number of messages than the size of messages.
Okay, so what will happen if the storage for index files is full?
From the wiki [1]: "If index files are missing, Dovecot creates them automatically when the mailbox is opened. If at any point creating a file or growing a file gives "not enough disk space" error, the indexes are transparently moved to memory for the rest of the session."
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Patrick Westenberg
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Timo Sirainen
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Willie Gillespie