From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 9 02:50:08 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88C27106566B for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 02:50:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rocky@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6FA98FC17 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 02:50:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (bell.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.40]) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEE555C28 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 13:03:37 +1000 (EST) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5666E5C22 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2012 13:03:37 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4F596EA7.4090207@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:44:55 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111109 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: imap server performance benchmarks X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 02:50:08 -0000 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.