Comparing Indexing Speed + ZFS question

Qmail qmail at top-consulting.net
Wed Apr 18 09:21:41 EEST 2018


Hi, have two quick questions:
I am re-indexing some large mailboxes and I wanted to get some opinions on these speeds. I ran a random sort command on an unindexed mailbox in order to get it to index. Results, for a mailbox with 10GB Inbox, spread in 65 000 files:
3 UID SORT (ARRIVAL) US-ASCII OR OR OR FROM "dfgfgfgf" SUBJECT "dfgfgfgf" TO "dfgfgfgf" CC "dfgfgfgf"
a03 select INBOX
* SORT
3 OK Sort completed (2455.549 + 0.122 + 1.477 secs).
Index cache file at the end was 31MB in size: 30756376 Apr 18 02:14 dovecot.index.cache
Is that normal, slow or fast ?
Second question is, how can I speed this up ? I store messages using Director over NFS , on top of ZFS. From what I've read it would be fairly safe to disable mail_fsync but I don't think that would help much with the indexing speed. Any other tips ?
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