[Mimedefang] Question about limiting size of TMPFS volume

Joseph Brennan brennan at columbia.edu
Mon Jun 2 08:32:01 EDT 2003


> Has anyone noticed signifigant speed improvements by putting their spools
> on tmpfs?


Yes, enormous improvement, night and day improvement.  It's not so
much the message size as all the read-write io on every message
large and small.  TMPFS is way faster than real disk.

Joseph Brennan          Columbia University in the City of New York
postmaster at columbia.edu                 Academic Technologies Group





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