incoming directory

[Julian Field]

At 22:44 13/11/2002, you wrote:
>Has anyone explored the bennefits or problems with putting the incoming
>directory onto a ramdisk?  I know mailscanner preferes to have it on the
>same partition as the mail queue directories, but I'm wondering if it
>might be faster (for the scanning part of the process).

If you have got loads of RAM, then it should at least work. Though weigh it
up against potentially increasing speed by running more child processes
(which will require more RAM).
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