[Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

Eric Rostetter rostetter at mail.utexas.edu
Fri Jun 25 21:20:58 EEST 2010


Quoting Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:

> But with auth cache enabled, there is no extra database load. The  
> index files are also most likely in OS's cache (assuming local  
> disk), so no extra disk I/O to read them either. I'm sure it's a bit  
> more extra CPU usage, but I'm not all that certain that it's really  
> that a big of a difference with Dovecot.

Just the amount of logs generated could be significant for disk load...
Not to mention network overhead and all the rest...

Again, your millage may vary...

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Eric Rostetter
The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin

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