[Dovecot] More Benchmarks, and a question about indexing

[Anthony Wendell Kay]

On 02/18 08:09, Rick Johnson wrote:
> Perhaps I just missed something - but what was used to benchmark? IMHO? 
> I'm curious as I wouldn't mind trying to benchmark (in general) my 
> Maildir setup. Granted, I don't have an mbox comoparison anymore for the 
> same machine, but it would be an interesting one none the less.

If you go to my site (which is actually my public Subversion source repository),
you can take a look. The page explains how I did the benchmarks in great detail,
and every script name in the tables is a link to the actual Perl script that
did the test.

I wrote a couple of the benchmarks based on IMAP traffic that I sniffed from 
both IMHO and SquirrelMail, but the benchmarks themselves did the stressing 
using Perl scripts.

> Perhaps there are other (political?) reasons 
> for sticking w/ mbox, however.

Yep. That, and our servers are currently Solaris and are using a filesystem 
format that is horribly slow in dealing with directories (flat instead of
B-Tree)...I am adding benchmarks for other formats (including maildir and
cyrus) as soon as I can get to them.

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