[Dovecot] Benchmarking

[Timo Sirainen]

On 25.1.2007, at 23.06, Farkas Levente wrote:

> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> 4) Dovecot's mbox code kicks maildir's ass.
>>
>> 5) dbox is surprisingly slow. I'll have to find out why. I don't  
>> think
>> it should be that slow.
>
> does this means you suggest to use mbox in stead of maildir?

No. The performance may be better, but reliability is worse. Also  
this test didn't even try to simulate a real world scenario, so it's  
possible that maildir is faster in real world.

> and dbox is far from usable?

I don't know if far is the right word, but I don't really want people  
to use it yet.
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