Re: [Dovecot] Best (fastest + most stable) search config...

2010-11-05 Thread Dave McGuire
On 11/5/10 9:17 AM, Ed W wrote: 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 When you rebuild your server, switch to some kind of virtualisation option! Never again will you not have a test architectu

Re: [Dovecot] Best (fastest + most stable) search config...

2010-11-05 Thread Ed W
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 When you rebuild your server, switch to some kind of virtualisation option! Never again will you not have a test architecture or any issue in spinnin

Re: [Dovecot] Best (fastest + most stable) search config...

2010-11-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
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'

Re: [Dovecot] Best (fastest + most stable) search config...

2010-11-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
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 m

Re: [Dovecot] Best (fastest + most stable) search config...

2010-11-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Timo Sirainen put forth on 11/4/2010 10:32 AM: > On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 15:19 +, Timo Sirainen wrote: >> With SSDs the Maildir >> performance should be pretty good too. Here are some SSD numbers when >> searching from mailbox with 10k messages: >> >> Maildir, uncached: 6.7s >> Maildir, cached: 2

Re: [Dovecot] Best (fastest + most stable) search config...

2010-11-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 15:19 +, Timo Sirainen wrote: > With SSDs the Maildir > performance should be pretty good too. Here are some SSD numbers when > searching from mailbox with 10k messages: > > Maildir, uncached: 6.7s > Maildir, cached: 2.2s > mdbox, uncached: 2.8s > mdbox, cached: 2.0s Sam

Re: [Dovecot] Best (fastest + most stable) search config...

2010-11-04 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 15:10 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > If Charles is currently using maildir or sdbox with Dovecot's default > body search, how much would his body search performance increase by > switching to mbox or mdbox, relatively speaking? Obviously searching a > few hundred emails will

Re: [Dovecot] Best (fastest + most stable) search config...

2010-11-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Charles Marcus put forth on 11/3/2010 3:32 PM: > On 2010-11-03 4:10 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Charles, how many messages are in the IMAP folders you are body searching? > > Some have as many as 25,000... and yes, I'm currently using maildir, but > have been considering switching to mdbox, but it

Re: [Dovecot] Best (fastest + most stable) search config...

2010-11-03 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-11-03 4:10 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Charles, how many messages are in the IMAP folders you are body searching? Some have as many as 25,000... and yes, I'm currently using maildir, but have been considering switching to mdbox, but its still a bit too new for me to be really comfortable do

Re: [Dovecot] Best (fastest + most stable) search config...

2010-11-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Timo Sirainen put forth on 11/3/2010 11:39 AM: > On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 09:48 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: > >> If I want to provide decent body search capability, what is the >> best/most reliable/easiest to implement method to use? > > Squat's index updating is way too slow. Solr is the only oth

Re: [Dovecot] Best (fastest + most stable) search config...

2010-11-03 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 09:48 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: > If I want to provide decent body search capability, what is the > best/most reliable/easiest to implement method to use? Squat's index updating is way too slow. Solr is the only other possibility right now. Not necessarily the easiest..