Spencer, > If I place $TEMPBASE on a ram based fs any suggestions on how big it > needs to be. I don't have large amounts of traffic, only average about > 30 sent and received messages a minute.
With a journalling file system or a soft-updates based UFS on FreeBSD you most likely don't need ram-based temporary area at all. The costly operations are updating metadata (creating and deleting files and directories). If this price is not high, the rest of the I/O is not a burden at all. It is certainly more robust to keep $TEMPBASE on a hard disk because if you are unlucky, a smallish RAM file partition can get too small much sooner that a disk partition, where you can easily afford more headroom. And if there is too much memory on a system, modern file systems are probably better at puting it to good use, than a reserved RAM, unprofitably waiting for an eventual huge mail which never comes. Mark ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
