Debug on a production server

[Julian Field]

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Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> Mikael Syska wrote:
>> You mention the wiki ... I can only see
>> http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php and a link to:
>> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/120.html
>> witch does not seem to work.
>
> Sorry...
>
>> and there does not seem to be anything about tmpfs ... if ...
>> then I'm not able to find it ...
>>
>> But it seems very easy ....
>>
>> Incoming Work Dir SpamAssassin Temporary Dir SpamAssassin Cache
>> Database File
>
> Usually /tmp and /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming
>
>>
>> on the Ram disk ... and that should be about it I guess ...
>>
>> Running Postfix if that makes any difference ...
>
> No.
>
>> what about size of it .... 1.5 * max message size or ?
>
> On linux it usually gets up to half the ram, but is usually never
> used that much.
>
>>>
>>> It is a marvelously thought out system, and I have to say that
>>> Julian is brilliant.
>>>
>> Yes ... very.
>>
>
> Eh ;)
>
> Ugo
>
Always better to use tmpfs and a ramdisk, tmpfs is elastic and only as
much space as it needs. Wasting ram on a fixed size ramdisk is not a
good move.

Jules

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