[Mimedefang] Question about limiting size of TMPFS volume

[David F. Skoll]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Joseph Brennan wrote:

> 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.

You will notice this much more on "safe and conservative" systems like
Solaris than on "live dangerously" systems like Linux, although even
on Linux, there's a pretty big difference.

--
David.