imap server performance benchmarks
Da Rock
freebsd-questions at herveybayaustralia.com.au
Fri Mar 9 02:50:08 UTC 2012
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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