Am 25.11.2013 14:12, schrieb Everton Foscarini: > I have a relatively big installation here in the university, 1 mail > server for 10.000 daily active accounts. > > I converted from maildir to mdbox + zlib in march, and these are my > considerations: > > 1. CPU is not a problem, even delivering more than 400 messages per > minute (blade HS21 with 2xQuad E5430 from 2008) > 2. I used dsync to convert from maildir to mdbox, with dovecot 2.1 at > the time. > > The biggest win is the file number reduction, from 27 million to 2 million.
But this is due to the conversion to mdbox and not the compression, isn't it? - René