[Mimedefang] A big recommendation for using ramdisk on MDspooldirectory

[Richard Laager]

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Kris Deugau wrote:
> Richard Laager wrote:
> > We've had our /var/spool/MIMEDefang directory on a tmpfs
> > filesystem for quite a while. Every once and a while, mail stops 
> flowing because
> > the tmpfs filesystem is full. That by itself is strange. It's
> > even stranger because when I rm -rf /var/spool/MIMEDefang/*
> > (after
> > stopping MIMEDefang and Sendmail), the disk usage stays the same.
> > I even made sure that all the mimedefang* and sendmail processes
> > were killed.
> 
> How big is your tmfs mount?

256 MB

> How much physical memory do you have?

512 MB

...
> > The box is running Red Hat Linux 9. The kernel version is 
> 2.4.20-18.9
> > from the RedHat RPM.
> 
> I *think* a newer RH kernel should be available;  there has been a
> bugfix release and a security release for 7.x/8.0 within the 
> past month.

That's quite possible. I intend to upgrade the spam boxes to Fedora
Core 1 in the near future.

Currently, things are working great. I have a nightly cron job which
stops the services and remounts the tmpfs filesystem. Sure, it's a
hack, but it gets the job done.

Richard Laager
Wikstrom Telecom Internet

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