----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin A. McGrail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 9:00 AM Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Looking for more ramdisk benefits
> > Bayes db lookups hit the disk on every message. I'm thinking about > > moving bayes_path entirely to a tmpfs. [...] > > Has anyone done this before? > > I've always wondered if the kernel disk caching method (linux) is efficient > enough to bypass the need to use a ram disk for a static (esque) file such > as this? > > Any comments? Disk caching is primarily for disk reads, and the Bayes database has a pretty fair number of writes as well. I saw disk I/O drop *tremendously* when I moved the Bayes database to a ramdisk ... but I also have a large Bayes database (90MB now that they've fixed expires, 200+MB before!). Chris Myers Networks By Design _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
