On 18/07/2011 11:27, Vegard Svanberg wrote:
What should I expect performance-wise if I put 200000 messages in a
Maildir store and use two or three MUAs (mutt and Thunderbird), on an
Athlon dual core 2GHz with SATA drives in software RAID (Linux)?
Like; would it be useless/crawling, usable or pretty fast. I imagine
MUA startup / first time folder read would be slow, but daily use more
or less ok.
Thanks to Dovecot's indexing, I imagine I would be better off
interfacing Mutt to Maildir via IMAP and Dovecot rather than accessing
Maildir/ directly?
200,000 messages under Maildir in a single folder.
You will tend to have a relatively large number of inodes compared to
the relative overall scale of the system.
This will tend to make backing-up a nuisance.
One thing you could consider is storing your mail under "mdbox". This
should drastically reduce the number of inodes.
Just remember that under "mdbox" the so-called "indexes" are actually
critical data files (i.e. they cannot be re-created like they could be
with Maildir or mbox).
Bill
