[Mimedefang] tmpfs on Linux

[Brenden Conte]

How large is your tmpfs drive?  Whats your usual mail volume?

By default Linux allows itself to use 1/2 your ram per tmpfs drive.

-Brenden

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 09:04, Greg Miller wrote:
> Platform is RedHat EL AS 3
> Dual Xeon 3.0 Ghz CPU
> 1 GB RAM
> Load is between 1-3 messages per second.
> 
> System performs very well, most of the time, with only 2-3 busy slaves.
> However, on occasion, I will see all 15 of my slaves busy, lots of disk
> I/O to swap, and "Please try again later" messages in the maillog.
> 
> I am using tmpfs for /var/spool/MIMEDEFANG as recommended in the FAQ. I
> believe my tmpfs is being sent to swap during these periods and causing
> horrible performance.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this behavior? Any solutions out there?
> Thanks.
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Brenden Conte
System Programmer, C&CT
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(518)276-2540