Has anyone considered putting the spool partition on a RAM drive?
sure, esp when on an IMGate relay, the msgs typically spend less the 10 seconds in the system.
I haven't thought about RAM drives since DOS but for a Store and Forward server it would mean the messages would never have to touch the hard drive's I/O system. Right?
the big problem is the size of the ram disk. What happens when Imail's outbound link gets real slow or goes down, and mailqueue the ram drive fills up. How does Imail react with no more diskspace?
Any thoughts or caveats?
If you think your problem is really disk i/o congestion and all optimizations have maxed out, then hooking faster SCSI disks to a caching SCSI controller(s) with 128 or 256 MB cache RAM, battery backed, would be just about as fast, greatly minimize disk i/o as most msgs would be delivered and deleted from cache before the cache would write them disk.
Len
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