[Mimedefang] Using a RamDisk with Mimedefang

[Kevin A. McGrail]

We process a lot of email very stably on quite a few servers

20 Sendmail Processes
a throttle of 10 connections per second
5 MD Slaves
DFS recommends 3:1 or 4:1 sendmail to MD slaves

A machine with 2GB can probably scale well towards tripling or quadrupling
this but I don't know what else you do on the machine.

KAM



> > > Is there a rule-of-thumb that can be used to determine the
> > > correct size for a ramdisk to contain /var/spool/MIMEDefang?
> >
> > http://www.mimedefang.org/node.php?id=28
>
> What would be a good guideline for the number of slaves relative to the
> simultaneous sendmail connections? Do you have a guide for taking a system
> with 2GB of RAM and allocating slaves, sendmail, etc.
>
> I've got a copy of “Sendmail Performance Tuning” on order, but how do I
> tune it with MD included in the mix.