[Mimedefang] high-load scanning with mimedefang

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Sat Nov 30 19:58:01 EST 2002


On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Mycrom wrote:

> Third ramdisks are your friend. /tmp, /var/spool/MIMEDefang, and
> /var/spool/mqueue are all ramdisks that are put up and taken down by the
> init scripts (For /var/spool/mqueue also a seperate sync scripts that keeps
> a backup of the queue for when it is taken out of memory).

Putting /var/spool/mqueue on a ramdisk is a bad idea, in my opinion.
You could lose mail if the machine crashes, unless it's on a
battery-backed ramdisk.  This is risky.

All your other suggestions are good, though.

--
David.



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