Re: TMPDIR as a tmpfs

2010-06-26 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 22/06/2010 10:52 AM, Henrique Fernandes wrote: It is safe to use spamassassin tmpdir on a tmpfs mounted system ? Yes it's safe. And if its safe it would have a better performance ? Potentially. If you've got memory free for it, it certainly shouldn't perform worse. Daryl

Re: TMPDIR as a tmpfs

2010-06-26 Thread jdow
From: Daryl C. W. O'Shea spamassas...@dostech.ca Sent: Saturday, 2010/June/26 15:23 On 22/06/2010 10:52 AM, Henrique Fernandes wrote: It is safe to use spamassassin tmpdir on a tmpfs mounted system ? Yes it's safe. And if its safe it would have a better performance ? Potentially

Re: TMPDIR as a tmpfs

2010-06-26 Thread RW
On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:33:32 -0700 jdow j...@earthlink.net wrote: Potentially. If you've got memory free for it, it certainly shouldn't perform worse. That might be a big if with a huge downside, Daryl. If the memory used by tmpfs forces SpamAssassin into memory swapping any speed

Re: TMPDIR as a tmpfs

2010-06-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 22.06.10 12:40, Henrique Fernandes wrote: My ram dos not get full, i do not have so many process, i limit it in postfix. It reduces the chances of losing emails if i do not have many process of spamassassin runing. So is safe or not to use tmpfs for tempdir in spamassassin. ? I use

Re: TMPDIR as a tmpfs

2010-06-23 Thread RW
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:47:00 -0700 Gary Smith gary.sm...@holdstead.com wrote: I had a very dramatic performance improvement by switching bayes and awl databases to MySQL instead of the default BerkeleyDB. It costs more RAM, CPU, and disk space, but scan times reduced dramatically. I'm

TMPDIR as a tmpfs

2010-06-22 Thread Henrique Fernandes
It is safe to use spamassassin tmpdir on a tmpfs mounted system ? And if its safe it would have a better performance ? Here where i work we have big problems with the hard drives, because we basically are sharing virtual machines disk over nfs. and spamassasin is a virtual machine. Any other

Re: TMPDIR as a tmpfs

2010-06-22 Thread Eduardo Casarero
2010/6/22 Henrique Fernandes sf.ri...@gmail.com It is safe to use spamassassin tmpdir on a tmpfs mounted system ? And if its safe it would have a better performance ? Here where i work we have big problems with the hard drives, because we basically are sharing virtual machines disk over nfs

RE: TMPDIR as a tmpfs

2010-06-22 Thread Gary Smith
It is safe to use spamassassin tmpdir on a tmpfs mounted system ? And if its safe it would have a better performance ? Here where i work we have big problems with the hard drives, because we basically are sharing virtual machines disk over nfs. and spamassasin is a virtual machine. Any

Re: TMPDIR as a tmpfs

2010-06-22 Thread Henrique Fernandes
with the message it does on tmpfs. []'sf.rique On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Gary Smith gary.sm...@holdstead.comwrote: It is safe to use spamassassin tmpdir on a tmpfs mounted system ? And if its safe it would have a better performance ? Here where i work we have big problems with the hard

RE: TMPDIR as a tmpfs

2010-06-22 Thread Gary Smith
My ram dos not get full, i do not have so many process, i limit it in postfix. It reduces the chances of losing emails if i do not have many process of spamassassin runing. So is safe or not to use tmpfs for tempdir in spamassassin. ? This way, everything that spamassassin have to do with

Re: TMPDIR as a tmpfs

2010-06-22 Thread Henrique Fernandes
pyzor and dcc Só it might be it ? If i am not using wont get in tmp ? Right now i have 2 server with spamassassin, one i just put everything in spamassassin in tmpfs and the other one i did not change anything []'sf.rique On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Gary Smith

Re: TMPDIR as a tmpfs

2010-06-22 Thread Adam Moffett
, CPU, and disk space, but scan times reduced dramatically. I'm certain we were I/O bound before this change because we had plenty of RAM and CPU available. It is safe to use spamassassin tmpdir on a tmpfs mounted system ? And if its safe it would have a better performance ? Here where i

RE: TMPDIR as a tmpfs

2010-06-22 Thread Gary Smith
I don't know if it is safe. I suspect it will function normally, but I think you'd be in danger of losing a few messages on an unexpected reboot. I had a very dramatic performance improvement by switching bayes and awl databases to MySQL instead of the default BerkeleyDB. It costs more

Re: TMPDIR as a tmpfs

2010-06-22 Thread Henrique Fernandes
it is taking about 3 seconds each email, i have pyzor and dcc, i am already runing with mysql db. After i get the statistis i will post here if tmpfs is faster or not! I made some script that can't see anyway for losing email! Thanks for all advise! And sorry about my english []'sf.rique On