Storing incoming work dir on ramdisk

Jeff A. Earickson jaearick at COLBY.EDU
Thu Jan 2 15:41:17 GMT 2003


Julian,
   Sendmail has *always* been the performance pig and bottleneck
on my mail-server.  While MailScanner 4.x is great, the performance
of MS 3.x was sufficiently fast to outrun sendmail on my system
(a dual-CPU Sun E220R), always.

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Jeff A. Earickson, Ph.D
Senior UNIX Sysadmin and Email Guru
Information Technology Services
Colby College, 4214 Mayflower Hill,
Waterville ME, 04901-8842
phone: 207-872-3659 (fax = 3076)
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