[Mimedefang] Question about limiting size of TMPFS volume

[Lucas Albers]

What were the steps to use tmpfs as your tmp directory in mimedefang?
Just create a soft link to a directory on your tmpfs volume?
Which spools do you have to use?
What sort of speed increase have you seen?
Will this cause you to lose email if your server dies?
I would assume yes?


--Luke
--Computer Science System Administrator
--Montana State University Bozeman,MT

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[mailto:mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com] On Behalf Of Michael Sims
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 8:35 AM
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Subject: [Mimedefang] Question about limiting size of TMPFS volume

Hi,

Sorry if this is in the archives; I couldn't find it.

I've been using TMPFS for my MD spool directory for the past week or so and
it's been working really well.  My machine has 1 GB of RAM and I have
allocated 500 MB for the TMPFS volume using the "size=500M" option to the
mount command.  I have configured Sendmail to accept at most messages that
are 20 MB in size.  So, in order to ensure that my spool volume doesn't fill
up, I have limited the number of MD processes to 22, so that I fall under
the limit with a nice bit of wiggle room.