[Mimedefang] MD I/O intensive?
David F. Skoll
dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Mon Mar 15 17:27:47 EST 2004
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Aaron Paetznick wrote:
> Ok I have a silly question then. Why doesn't MIMEDefang have a runtime
> option to use shared memory or some other more intrinsic method? Surely
> a ram disk is a functional but inelegant solution.
Because all the add-ons (virus scanners, Perl modules, ...) expect to
be handed a file. (At the very least, *everything* works if handed a
file -- it's the least common denominator.) While MIME::tools itself
is perfectly happy to store decoded parts into memory, you'd have to
modify all the other tools to work together with it.
A ramdisk is much simpler and more portable. (Creating a ramdisk is
not portable, of course, but using one is.)
Regards,
David.
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