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

Kevin A. McGrail kmcgrail at pccc.com
Wed Apr 27 21:02:03 EDT 2005


Probably a good move.  I got a little tired of the disk I/O grind with DB 
and Bayes/AWL and I'm using mySQL.  It seems much better on using the 
resources of the server most efficiently.

Regards,
KAM

> I keep my bayes database on the ramdisk.  My init scripts copy the db to 
> disk on shutdown, and copy into ramdisk on startup.  Sendmail is restarted 
> every night for log rotation so worst case i'd lose a day of Bayes if the 
> server crashed.  Since SA is nailing bayes db on every message, i figured 
> it can't hurt to have it on the ramdisk as well. 




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