On 6 Sep 2012, at 10:21, Nigel Metheringham <[email protected]> wrote:
> Exim puts mail through an on-disk queue, and, obeying the appropriate > RFCs, takes great care to make sure that received mail is committed to > stable storage before acknowledging receipt or attempting further > delivery - this tends to require round trips, not just to the disk > controller, but right down to the spinning rust, so will limit > performance, whilst enhancing reliability. Of course SSDs, flash storage, and ram disks are also available. Using them will improve performance. RAM disks, though, will risk message loss. -- Ian Eiloart Postmaster, University of Sussex +44 (0) 1273 87-3148 -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
