[Mimedefang] Server load

[David F. Skoll]

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Dirk Mueller wrote:

> (aren't books about computer software always too old when they're printed?)

The copyright date on this one is 2003. :-)

> I do agree that putting it on a RAM disk is the best thing, as long as the 
> spool dir is not growing beyond certain limits. But sometimes bigger mails 
> stuck in the spool directory, so they will fill up the RAM disc, destroying 
> the small performance benefit you got. 

Well, I do *not* suggest putting /var/spool/mqueue on a RAM disk!  That would
be disastrous.

But files in /var/spool/MIMEDefang are almost always short-lived, and if
the system crashes, it doesn't matter if you lose the files in that
directory.

--
David.