Le 27/04/2018 à 15:04:40+0200, Eric Luyten a écrit > > > On 27/04/2018 14:33, Albert Shih wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Some question about the grow speed of the size of > > > > /var/imap > > > > because I would put that partition on SSD, and SSD are expensive. I would > > like to know what would be the ratio between the size of mailbox and > > /var/imap. > > > > On my new server I have ~20-25To space for the mailbox. How much /var/imap > > should I get. > > > > > > Albert, > > > We have a Cyrus server with 82,000 users, 500,000 (sub)mailboxes and about > 8 Terabyte of mail messages in 9 ZFS filesystems built on an iSCSI SAN > offering. > Each filesystem holds somewhere between 6 and 11 million messages. > > Our /var/imap is 1.5 GB large, it holds the delivery and mailboxes > databases, > the Sieve scripts, seen information and some local administration stuff. > It has been sitting on the same pair of 73 GB SLC SSDs since August 2010. > The server absorbs between (on average) 80,000 (Saturday) and 250,000 > (Monday) > deliveries per day. At one time we peaked at close to 400,000 deliveries in > 24 hours, Very impressif (well...at least for me ;-) ) > We're even thinking of, on our next generation, putting all the Cyrus > metadata > (cache, header, index) on solid state as these represent about 2% of the > messages > volume (will be more if you have activated delayed expunge and squatter, I > think). I activated squatter but put the index not on ssd. The index created by squatter are (in my case) about 5-8% of the size of the mailbox. But I got lot of « conversation » index. What's the purpose of those « conversations » ? > I just checked ... we have 90 GB of cyrus.{cache, header, index} Ok thanks a log. > > SSDs can now be had in capacities of 3.2 TB Yes, but my boss will kill me if I present to him the price of this SSD ;-) and I will very guilty if after 5 years only 1 % of this ssd are used ... Thanks you for you help. Regards -- Albert SHIH DIO bâtiment 15 Observatoire de Paris xmpp: jas@xxxxxxxx Heure local/Local time: Fri Apr 27 15:42:06 CEST 2018 ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/ To Unsubscribe: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/info-cyrus