Timo Sirainen wrote:
As described earlier
(http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2006-December/018055.html), Dovecot
nowadays has full text search indexing support in CVS HEAD.
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So it takes somewhat more space, but definitely less than having both
Squat + Lucene.
No substring indexing, words up to 10 chars (Lucene replacement):
Index time: 1.39 CPU seconds (22.28MB/CPUs)
Node memory: 3297663 bytes (3220 kB) in 548540 nodes
UID memory: 1803735 bytes (1761 kB) in 213554 lists
Total: 5101398 / 32474899 bytes = 15.71%
Is there a need for Lucene anymore with this kind of a speed and disk
space usage? :)
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Wow - as usual impressive work, Timo! I wish I was skilled enough to
help you stress test this, but alas, I'm not... I'll have to just wait
and rely on those more capable. But it looks to make a huge difference
in Clients that use the new 'Virtual Folder' technology, where the
folders are based on multiple search criteria. I manage one Courier-imap
server (am still trying to convince the boss to let me switch to
dovecot, but he wants to wait until 1.0 has been released and out for a
while, and on that server, people that have lots of messages in a single
folder (they use Thunderbird) and create simple Virtual Folders - well,
lets just say that they can't use them. Clicking on the Virtual Folder
always takes forever and more often than not results in a time-out error.
Dovecot is already better than Courier in this respect, but it sounds
like this will make it even better...
Thanks again!
--
Best regards,
Charles
