[Dovecot] More Benchmarks, and a question about indexing

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Wed Feb 18 18:33:46 EET 2004


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Timo Sirainen wrote:

|>Anyway, we are stuck with the mbox format for the forseeable future, and I
|>noticed how hard hitting Dovecot is on initial access to a large
mailbox, so we
|>need a way to pre-create some of those indexes. I saw in the docs that
such an
|>indexer has been planned, but does anyone have a hack for doing it now?
|
|
| This, and POP access will work better in next version too. Currently
| Dovecot goes and stores all kinds of cached data to index files even if
| client never uses them. This will change so that data is stored only
| when client actually asks for it which I think makes opening large
| mailboxes almost as fast as UW-IMAP (small hit for writing 200-500kB
| indexes per 10000 mails).
|
| I'll also create Dovecot LDA which is able to update the indexes
| directly while storing the mail, that should help some too.
|
| Anyway, back to coding. I hope to get it usable soon and committed to
| CVS. Before that I'm pretty unresponsive..

Cool!

~ - Jonas

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