[Dovecot] Performance Tuning Recommendations for Dovecot

Geert Hendrickx ghen at telenet.be
Mon Dec 4 17:38:54 UTC 2006


On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 09:21:58AM -0800, Jack Stewart wrote:

> I am considering putting the indexes on memory disks but I haven't scoped
> out the requirements for the central system yet (i.e. it is unclear to me
> how large the index will be for approximately 13 million messages take
> take up roughly 800GB of disk space.

I don't think this makes much sense, as the indexes will be lost with every
reboot.  On a busy server they will be cached into memory anyway.  So just
add enough RAM.

	Geert


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