flat mailboxes performances for around 1500 entries

[Patrice]

Thank you Dave !

I will use 'flat' files then.

a last question :  do you use flat for all cyrus files or just for
mailboxes.db ?

Patrice

Dave McMurtrie wrote:

> Patrice wrote:
>
>> Does someone know if the flat format type  for my 
>> /var/imap/mailboxes.db is good enough for only 1500 mailboxes ?
>
>
> We use flat in our setup.  We have about 65000 users with 264265 
> mailboxes.
>
>> or it will impact performances ?
>
>
> It works fine for us.  Whether other formats would perform better, I 
> can't say.  We never benchmarked.  Flat format isn't as bad as you 
> would initially think, since cyrus mmap()s the file anyway.  The big 
> hit you take is that each update requires the entire file to be 
> re-written.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
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