On 8/23/2013 7:17 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2013-08-22 9:57 PM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: >> On 8/21/2013 4:07 PM, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: >> >>> I would strongly suggest using mdbox instead. AFAIK clusterfs' aren't >> I'd recommend mdbox as well, with a healthy rotation size. The larger >> files won't increase IMAP performance substantially but they can make >> backup significantly quicker. > > I'm considering migrating to mdbox... wondering what you consider > 'healthy' rotation size. > > I generally try to avoid changing defaults whenever possible, so, do you > consider the default size of 2MB too small? > > I guess though that it depends on usage. Since we get a decent number of > large attachments, maybe that is a good reason to bump it up?
It's probably better to err large than to err small. Analyze your current maildir directories and make a distribution graph of file sizes. That should give you a good idea of what your rotation size should be. -- Stan