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

[Michael Baird]

It's much faster, there is a MailScanner FAQ about using tmpfs and the
speed advantages, yes there is the risk of losing mail if the machine
crashes.

Regards
MIKE

> >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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