[Mimedefang] Some info about amounts/day/load

[Stephen Smoogen]

On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 07:32, David F. Skoll wrote:

> > So, next up is putting bins and mailspool in a ramdisk to get rid of the
> > HD bottleneck :-)
> 
> Do NOT put your mail spool on a ramdisk!  It's OK to put
> /var/spool/MIMEDefang on a ramdisk, but not /var/spool/mqueue.

I would put /var/spool/mqueue on a real ramdisk (eg solid state 'disk'
with battery backup), but not in a memory ramdisk unless you have belt
and suspendor electrical power to the machine.

I might put /var/spool/mail on a solid-state disk that has hard-drive
backup with batteries.


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