Where do write ops take place? Maybe mount that path to a RAM disk rather than looking for anorher solution.
> > Am 10.12.2019 um 15:50 schrieb Wojciech Puchar via dovecot > <dovecot@dovecot.org>: > > what FTP module should i use instead of squat that is probably no longer > supported or no longer at all? > > i want to upgrade my dovecot installation. it currently uses squat but i > found it often crashes on FTS on large mailboxes. > > i found "xapian" addon for dovecot but while it works excellent AFTER > database is created, i found it need like 20 or so minutes to index less than > 10GB of mails and while doing this - generate many tens of megabytes/s > constant write traffic on it's database files. > > Excellent way of killing SSD. > > something must be broken. > > my config is > > plugin { > plugin = fts fts_xapian > > fts = xapian > fts_xapian = partial=2 full=20 verbose=0 > > fts_autoindex = yes > fts_enforced = yes > > # fts_autoindex_exclude = \Junk > # fts_autoindex_exclude2 = \Trash > } > > > any ideas?