Tobias Balle-Petersen schreef:
Hello...
Im considering moving my index-files to a RAID1. How big do these
files get? What should I plan for?
Thanks,
Tobias
since 1 july 2007 i store all mails to this list in 1 folder
(Maildir-format)
the size of this (and the indexes) is:
31M cur
80K dovecot.index
6.8M dovecot.index.cache
44K dovecot.index.log
136K dovecot.index.log.2
4.0K dovecot-keywords
164K dovecot-uidlist
4.0K new
4.0K tmp
so, on average maybe 20%-30% of the size of your messages ?
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Jan van den Berg wrote:
That's actually quite a lot.
Consider you run 100k+ mailboxes (1GB each) and you would move to
Dovecot this will be a huge chunk out of your storage.
Is using dovecot index files really that much faster than running
":INDEX=MEMORY" ? Where could I find some benchmarks about this?
Cheers,
Jan
I think a lot would depend on your average message size. Here's another
data point. At my old company's server:
43,438 messages
2,350,260,769 bytes
per-message ~ 54K
~3,000 folders:
486 dovecot-keywords
2675 dovecot-uidlist
2967 dovecot.index
2456 dovecot.index.cache
2967 dovecot.index.log
183 dovecot.index.log.2
251 maildirfolder
26 subscriptions
total non-message file sizes:
93,010,227 bytes
/ 2,350,260,769 bytes
=~ 3.9 percent
And, taking into account what Timo wrote about it being client-dependent,
most of the users there are using Outlook.
Best,
Ben
