[Mimedefang] MD I/O intensive?

[Aaron Paetznick]

I'm even willing to try Reiser4.  Anybody tested this with MIMEDefang? 
It supposed to be about twice as fast at everything except deleting, but 
it also uses twice as much CPU.


--Aaron



Lucas Albers wrote:

> Andrew J Caird said:
> 
>>email), but several small, fast disks would serve you well.  The ideal
>>situation (well, in my opinion) is: one disk for OS and logs; one disk for
>>/var/spool/mqueue; one disk for the MD quarantine; enough RAM for a
>>RAMdisk for
>>MD's working directory.  If these servers will handle outgoing email,
>>you'll
>>need a bigger mqueue, probably.  If you have multiple controllers, you can
>>put
>>either mqueue or the MD quarantine on its own controller.
> 
> I read somewhere that reiserfs is faster then ext3 on small file
> deletion/creation.
> Typical mail load.
> On a high load site, would type of file system really matter?
>