Help with queue backup

[Peter Bonivart]

Kevin Spicer wrote:
> My understanding is that mqueue.in and mqueue should be on the same
> partition, because then to move files between directories all
> MailScanner needs to do is a link/unlink action.  By splitting the
> spools onto different partitions MailScanner needs to actually copy the
> files, adding read and write overhead.

Yes, you're right but in this case he's overloading one disk and needs
to transfer some I/O off of it. I think it's well worth a test, he only
needs to create a mqueue.in directory on one of those partitions and
change one line in MailScanner.conf and his Sendmail start script to
test it.

> One further note for the archives (not relevent to the original poster
> who is running Solaris 8 I think), the noatime flag was only added to
> Solaris on Solaris 7 or 8 (can't remember which, but I have tried to use
> it on a Solaris 2.6 machine and failed).

It was added in 7.

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/Peter Bonivart

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