Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:44:55 +1000 From: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: imap server performance benchmarks Message-ID: <4F596EA7.4090207@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
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I'm reconsidering my current setup (postfix/courier) for imap and I was doing some research on performance comparisons between imap server setups. I stumbled on this article just just about fell of my chair laughing when I read the last article on future benchmarking tests to perform: research.microsoft.com/pubs/138302/lisa.pdf Considering I have close to a hundred folders or more, and an average of 50,000 emails in each (yes, not good, and I am working on archiving but it won't help _that_ much) with nearly 200,000 in just one! I got a real kick out of the comment that "no sane email user would have more than 21,000 emails in a folder" - that would make me certifiable :D Oh, and that most email wouldn't be more than a GB or so... mine's edging 6GB already... So, all jokes aside, I contemplated that I would make an ideal test case to the extreme for benchmarking imap servers. Anyone have any suggestions on what to test/how? Anyone have some tools they have created for a similar challenge? I have my own ideas, but if anyone wants me to try something I'd be willing to give it a shot. If anyone has a better idea on which list this should be posted to as well - I considered the lists available (I'm hooked up to most) and couldn't see any better.
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