Thank you Dave !

I will use 'flat' files then.

a last question :  do you use flat for all cyrus files or just for
mailboxes.db ?

Patrice

Dave McMurtrie wrote:

Patrice wrote:

Does someone know if the flat format type for my /var/imap/mailboxes.db is good enough for only 1500 mailboxes ?


We use flat in our setup. We have about 65000 users with 264265 mailboxes.

or it will impact performances ?


It works fine for us. Whether other formats would perform better, I can't say. We never benchmarked. Flat format isn't as bad as you would initially think, since cyrus mmap()s the file anyway. The big hit you take is that each update requires the entire file to be re-written.

Thanks,

Dave

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