which quota backend for cyrus imapd?

[Bron Gondwana]

I'll let you work with Ellie on that :)  I've made her boss of the legacy for now!

On Sat, Aug 8, 2015, at 00:37, Thomas Jarosch wrote:
> Hi Bron,
> 
> On Friday, 7. August 2015 07:48:06 Bron Gondwana wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 25, 2015, at 01:49, Thomas Jarosch wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > which quota backend is the recommended backend nowadays?
> > > 
> > > Obvious candidates are "quotalegacy" and "skiplist".
> > > 
> > > quotalegacy has per-user files while "skiplist"
> > > would use one central file for all users,
> > > which means more lock contention.
> > > 
> > > The man page entry for "quota_db" doesn't give
> > > any explanation which backend to prefer.
> > > 
> > > Which backend is used at Fastmail? :)
> > 
> > Quotalegacy.  And for precisely the reason you might imagine - lower lock
> > contention :)
> 
> thanks, it's good to know it's used in a large scale installation.
> 
> There are some fixes in the 2.5 code base that need porting to 2.4, I'll see 
> what I can do about that in September. Mostly minor stuff about closing file 
> descriptors (=unlocking) on error.
> 
> So those fixes could at least land on the 2.4 branch,
> independent if there's going to be another release or not.
> 
> Thomas
> 


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