mailboxes.db backend comparison

[Wesley Craig]

On 18 May 2006, at 12:11, Andrew Morgan wrote:
> On Wed, 17 May 2006, Wesley Craig wrote:
>> On 17 May 2006, at 14:21, Andrew Morgan wrote:
>>> My most recent test was to rebuild the mupdate master  
>>> mailboxes.db from my backend server.
>>> skiplist - 20-25 minutes
>>> berkeley - 3 minutes
>>
>> How long does it take to LIST the contents of each database?
>
> I don't know of a way to test this on the mupdate master, so  
> instead I converted one of my frontends from skiplist to berkeley.   
> A simple "lm" command in cyradm took approximately 15 seconds for  
> both formats.

Any difference in the resources (CPU, disk IO) consumed?  Perhaps do  
"lm" 10-20 times to get enough data to demonstrate a difference.

:wes