[Mimedefang] BIG problems with mimedefang

Lisa Casey lisa at jellico.com
Thu Jan 19 14:41:50 EST 2006


Hi David,

> First question: do you have /var/spool/MIMEDefang on a RAMdisk?  If not,
> fix it now!

> Next: It looks like you have 512MB of memory.  You don't want to increase
> MX_MAXIMUM much beyond around 20, or the server will start swapping.

I think moving /var/spool/MIMEDefang onto a RAMdisk is a good idea. I've not 
set up a RAMdisk before, but I've done some googling and think I can get it 
done.

Question: I have 512 MG RAM on the system. Say I decrease MX_MAXIMUM to 15, 
how big should I make the RAMdisk?

Thanks,

Lisa




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