On Fri 2004-02-06 (13:54), Peter Campion-Bye wrote: > > I moved /var/spool/MIMEDefang to a ramdisk and got a 20% improvement in > scan time (It's a slow old disk in the box) > Before I spend ages experimenting, has anybody found any worthwhile > improvement by moving other stuff to ramdisk, the SA rules for example, (I > expect these are just read once and cached) How about the clamav db? > Is there anything that's read into memory off the disk on every message? > Thanks > > mimedefang 2.39 sendmail 8.12.9 clamav 0.65 spamassassin 2.63
Bayes db lookups hit the disk on every message. I'm thinking about moving bayes_path entirely to a tmpfs. Of course there must be a mechanism to save the precious bayes data across reboots - maybe with one or two snapshot backups per day to persistant storage. Has anyone done this before? Regards, -Juergen _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
