Huge difference between the lucene index size created by v2.1 and v2.2

[Akash]

So should I now be trying just this patch or both (including the one
you posted before) ?

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> Actually that same header indexing behavior was already in v2.1. But I found the real problem now: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/febedba15c7e
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> That bug was actually already in v2.1, but because memory was always allocated from stack it wasn't causing as many problems.
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> On 18 Aug 2014, at 13:34, Akash <akbwiz+dovecot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for checking. The patch didn't make any significant difference. Now its 1.3G instead of 1.5G.
>>
>> root at server:~# ls -lh /home/admin/mails/lucene-indexes
>> total 1.3G
>> -rw------- 1 nobody nogroup 1.3G Aug 18 11:30 _4a.cfs
>> -rw------- 1 nobody nogroup   20 Aug 18 11:30 segments.gen
>> -rw------- 1 nobody nogroup   46 Aug 18 11:30 segments_8n
>>
>> On 18-08-2014 14:17, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>>> On 18 Aug 2014, at 09:42, Akash <akbwiz+dovecot at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 390M vs 1.5G. That is a huge difference in size. Why is that?
>>> Can you test if the attached patch shrinks it back? I had been
>>> planning on making that also configurable. There might be something
>>> else also causing it.
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