overview zlib efficiency?

[Sven Hartge]

Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator <goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de> wrote:

> may be someone has already done that: Do you have a script(?) tool
> which shows the efficiency of the mail compression if zlib is used?

> Something that shows the uncompressed size vrs. the compressed.

I don't have a script, but I can provide some numbers. I did a test with
a server for about 10.000 users and 2TB worth of mail, converting from
Maildir++ to mdbox with zlib (level = 6) and had a final size of 1TB, so
2:1 reduction.

Grüße,
Sven.

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