Mounting mqueue.in as a tempfs...on FreeBSD

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Tue Mar 23 21:41:55 GMT 2004


>Obviously there is a performance advantage to this. Is there any
>disadvantage to this? Any possibility of loosing email if the system crashes?
>Anyone have a rough estimate of the performance gain for this setup? Anyone
>benchmarked this before and after?

I tried it on FreeBSD 4.x a while back and it seemed slower than using a
disk based directory.  Also, I think the MFS is limited to 512MB which
might not be enough on heavily loaded systems..


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