Timo Sirainen put forth on 11/4/2010 6:24 PM: > On 4.11.2010, at 23.09, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> That shows that mdbox is twice as fast as maildir for uncached searches, >> which I'm guessing are the majority of searches. I'd really be >> interested in seeing numbers for mbox as well. > > Here's a way to do it in Linux: > > 1. Fill up the mailbox with messages: > > imaptest logout=0 - append=100,50 msgs=10000 user=testaccount > > When it finishes, imaptest goes to infinite loop and you have to kill -9 it. > I guess I should fix that some day. > > 2. Flush page cache: echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > > 3. time doveadm search mailbox inbox text asdfasd > > After 3 the mailbox should be cached, so you can run it again. Get imaptest > from http://imapwiki.org/ImapTest > > In non-Linux step 2 can be achieved by rebooting. :)
Thanks for the tip Timo. But it wouldn't really do me any good as my system specs are different from yours. Thus the results don't directly compare. Unfortunately I don't have a test system available to do all the mailbox types. I can only test mbox on my production system. That is, if imaptest will work against 1.2.x. The instructions seem to state 2.0.x is needed. I guess I was under the assumption you have a test machine where you could knock out tests of all 4 mailbox types pretty easily. I guess I was wrong. :( -- Stan
