Nigel Metheringham wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 14:25 +0200, Daniel Tiefnig wrote: >>Shouldn't this make no difference on any reasonable Operating System? >>The hints DB should always be in RAM anyways, so I don't see how it >>should speed up significantly by placing them on a ramdisk. >>Does exim do sync() on its hint DBs? > The underlying database engine (db/dbm/gdbm) would almost certainly sync > the files to ensure other processes are getting consistent data.
The actual error I was encountering was a "timeout getting lock", causing slowdown on handling incoming connections before it gave up trying to work out the rate limiting stuff. It's possible that my ratelimiting rules are a little aggressive which isn't helping the situation but as traffic ramps up the problem would have been reached anyway. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
