[Mimedefang] New to Mimedefang

[Rob MacGregor]

On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 12:47:03 -0500, Jeff Rife <mimedefang at nabs.net> wrote:
> If you put the /var/spool/MIMEDefang directory on a ramdisk (using
> either an actual ramdisk or tempfs) this not only speeds up the
> scanning but solves this problem in the long run, since every reboot
> gets rid of these randomly saved directories.

But be aware that with FreeBSD 5.x and UFS2 short lived files (~6 s
ISTR) don't get written to disk, so a RAM disk will rarely buy you
anything, but costs you memory :-).

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