Some ramdrives autosave at configurable intervals. I see this as not being that much worse than enabling caching on a hard drive or array, although it probably doesn't make much sense unless you are pushing the capacity of your server.

Matt



Tom Baker | Netsmith Inc wrote:

Because if the spool is a ramdisk then a message received via SMTP becomes
the responsibility of the receiving SMTP server for delivery.
With no physical storage location if the receiving STMP were to lose power
the spool/received messages would be lost and further delivery would not be
attempted upon restart.



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From: John Tolmachoff (Lists) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 9:49 AM
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Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] improved performance using ramdrive?




If the spool directory was on a RAM drive, though, it could speed things up quite a bit (the RFCs say this is not allowed, though), as the information constantly changes.



Why would the RFCs care where the spool is? Performance wise, that would be a great use if you had the funds.

John Tolmachoff
Engineer/Consultant/Owner
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