[Mimedefang] Re: "Please try again later"

[John Rudd]

On Sep 10, 2005, at 11:38 PM, John Rudd wrote:

>
> On Sep 10, 2005, at 7:40 PM, David F. Skoll wrote:
>
>> By the way, did you make sure that /var/spool/MIMEDefang was on a
>> tmpfs volume on your Sun machines?  If you don't do that, it will kill
>> performance.  You might want to verify that.
>>
>
> The load is very different right now, but that certainly seems to be 
> making a difference.  I hadn't even considered that (with the 
> dual-queue approach in mailscanner, you kind of don't want to do that, 
> because if the computer crashes,  you may very well lose messages).
>
> So, I'm running one of the 4 production machines that way right now.  
> I'll wait and see how it does tomorrow before I decide what to do 
> next.  Very cool.
>

A little while later, it came back.  It seemed less frequent, but this 
is uner a night load, instead of a day load.  So it's hard to tell.  It 
looks like we're going to have to wait for the hardware upgrade.