[Mimedefang] using a RAM disk for mimedefang temp directory?

[Kevin A. McGrail]

Preface: My mimedefang runs as user defang gid 107 and uid 107.  Hence the
info below.

#8 -- Using a temporary filesystem to speed up mail processing and lower
disk I/O

 - If you have tmpfs in your kernel and you have enough RAM, then processing
the emails on a ramdisk
   is the only way to go.  Here's a simple way to achieve that thanks to
Alan Premselaar & Steffen Kaiser
   for the mount hint:

   #Stop sendmail & mimedefang
   /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
   /etc/rc.d/init.d/mimedefang stop

   mv /var/spool/MIMEDefang /var/spool/MIMEDefang.old
   mkdir /var/spool/MIMEDefang

   #add this line to /etc/fstab

   none                    /var/spool/MIMEDefang   tmpfs
uid=107,gid=107,mode=700,size=384M        0 0

   mount /var/spool/MIMEDefang

   NOTE: You'll want to place your bayesian database and auto-whitelist
somewhere else as noted by Bill Curtis!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Ward" <mwardg at gmail.com>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 3:15 PM
Subject: [Mimedefang] using a RAM disk for mimedefang temp directory?


> we've been using mimedefang+spamassassin under sendmail for quite some
> time now, very successfully.
>
> looking around for ways to speed things up and/or just make them more
> efficient ... wondering if anyone has experience using a RAM disk
> (tmpfs as opposed to an expen$ive solid state disk) for mimedefang's
> temporary directory?
>
> am i right in assuming that the "temporary directory" is what
> configure calls "spooldir" and not the "quarantinedir"?  or is there a
> separate "temp dir"?
>
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