[Dovecot] M-Box benchmark

[Marc Perkel]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 18.3.2007, at 7.40, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
>
>> Switching from UW-IMAP/mbox to dovecot/mbox has even a large 
>> performance gain (I would say around 10-100, on large folders because 
>> of the index files.). Also deleting is much faster.
>>
>> I haven't benchmarked it but it is definitly much, much faster.
>> (That was the reason I left UW-IMAP).
>
> I've heard of load average dropping from 100 to 0.02 :)

BTW, how is it that you get such great performance using mbox files? I 
would have thought it would be much slower than it is to delete the 
first message from say a 2 gig file? How do you do that so fast?