* Stan Hoeppner <[email protected]>: > Stefan Foerster put forth on 2/7/2010 6:39 AM: > > For 100k messages, delivery to a Maildir store using Postifx's pipe(8) > > and Dovecot's deliver took 4319s, which equals 23.15 delivieries per > > second - and that's with the pipe(8) delivery agent haning around for > > up to 100 seconds, being reused for multiple transactions. > > > > Dovecot 2.0, with LMTP, was finished after 4007s, which equals 24.96 > > deliveries per second. > > > > Apart from an almost 10% difference, the system felt a lot less > > "sluggish" (read: I/O saturated) with 2.0b2 - unfortunately, I didn't > > run sysstat during the test, but I'll get that done next weekend. > > > > Keep up the good work! > > Thanks for the test info Stefan. What are the hardware specs of the system > you > ran this test on?
KVM guest, dedicated LV using virtio, underlying single SATA disk. The system had 1024Mb of RAM and two CPU cores (out of eight) assigned. Stefan
