[Mimedefang] ramdisks on Linux

[Lucas Albers]

Doesn't protect you if your kernel crashes??
What mail volume does this performance improvement really matter at?
Over 1 million messages per day?

John Scully said:
> You can get a huge performance boost by moving the mqueue to a ramdisk,
> but to avoid the risk of messages being lost due to a reset add a
> battery protected ramdisk card like those from Rocketcard.  They are
> about $500 for a one gig card, $1,200 for a four gig.
>
> If you want to test the performance gain before buying a card, and have
> enough ram to spare try moving the mqueue to a normal linux ramdisk for
> a day.
>
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Luke Computer Science System Administrator
Security Administrator,College of Engineering
Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana