A quick and easy performance improvement

[Green, Rodney]

Here's a link to a howto on creating a ramdisk...

http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Ramdisk/ramdisk.html

Chris Hammond wrote:
> Thanks Daniel, it does sound quite simple.  I will look at trying this.
>
> Thanks
> Chris
>  
>   
>>>> "Daniel Maher" <daniel.maher at ubisoft.com> 08/01/06 9:43 AM >>> 
>>>>         
> Sure, it's actually quite simple.
>
> I just created a ramdisk in the standard way, and mounted it as
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
>
> I then created a simple cronjob that runs every couple of hours, which
> runs sa- learn -- sync, and then copies the
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/bayes/* to a directory on a physical
> disk.
>
> I should point out that the contents of /bayes/ is around 500MB to
> 600MB on each of the servers in my mail pool, so the more RAM the
> better. :)
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>> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Chris Hammond
>> Sent: August 1, 2006 9:14 AM
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>> Subject: Re: A quick and easy performance improvement
>>
>> Daniel, would you share how you setup yours?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Chris
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