Mailscanner in mem

Mozzi linux at mostert.nom.za
Mon Mar 24 11:20:36 GMT 2003


Tnx
I use fprot so there goes that idea

Mozzi

On Monday 24 March 2003 12:55, you wrote:
> At 09:26 24/03/2003, you wrote:
> >Hallo all
> >
> >Can anyone remeber the subject for the thrad on running mailscanner in
> > memory?
> >
> >I have a box with 3Gig ram here and I need the performance.
>
> You can safely run with the MailScanner/incoming directory in RAM (just use
> tmpfs) as long as you aren't using F-Prot (which for some reason doesn't
> like tmpfs and won't recurse directories properly). Putting your mqueue.in
> and mqueue in RAM is very dodgy unless your RAM is battery-backed and your
> system is never rebooted with anything in its mail queues.
>
> If you are running Linux, then add a "-" in front of the log filename in
> syslog.conf. So instead of it logging to
>          /var/log/maillog
> make it
>          -/var/log/maillog
> That will stop syslogd from fsync-ing after every log entry, which can make
> quite a difference to your disk traffic.
>
> Running with MailScanner/incoming in tmpfs can add up to 30% to your max
> throughput.
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
> Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
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