On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Per Foreby wrote:
Looking at a number of ordinary users (students) they have between 25 and 40 messages per file, so maybe I incresed the size to much.
Hmm, that means that with 4MB the average message size is between 26K and and 42K. These must be messages with attachments. My personal long-term mailbox contains mostly messages with 4-digit sizes. I get messages with attachments all the time, but I rarely keep them for long.
This demonstrates the danger in optimizing for personal experience; it's really necessary to collect data from a large community. I'm also not sure if we should tune for the mean, the median, or be detuned somewhat to make an extreme run better (since it's the extremes that bite us on performance). Or if we need variable tuning (aiiiiiiieeeeeeeeee.....).
As I said early on in this thread, I believe that the right value is probably somewhere between 1MB and 10MB.
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