Preface: My mimedefang runs as user defang gid 107 and uid 107. Hence the info below.
#8 -- Using a temporary filesystem to speed up mail processing and lower disk I/O - If you have tmpfs in your kernel and you have enough RAM, then processing the emails on a ramdisk is the only way to go. Here's a simple way to achieve that thanks to Alan Premselaar & Steffen Kaiser for the mount hint: #Stop sendmail & mimedefang /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/mimedefang stop mv /var/spool/MIMEDefang /var/spool/MIMEDefang.old mkdir /var/spool/MIMEDefang #add this line to /etc/fstab none /var/spool/MIMEDefang tmpfs uid=107,gid=107,mode=700,size=384M 0 0 mount /var/spool/MIMEDefang NOTE: You'll want to place your bayesian database and auto-whitelist somewhere else as noted by Bill Curtis! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 3:15 PM Subject: [Mimedefang] using a RAM disk for mimedefang temp directory? > we've been using mimedefang+spamassassin under sendmail for quite some > time now, very successfully. > > looking around for ways to speed things up and/or just make them more > efficient ... wondering if anyone has experience using a RAM disk > (tmpfs as opposed to an expen$ive solid state disk) for mimedefang's > temporary directory? > > am i right in assuming that the "temporary directory" is what > configure calls "spooldir" and not the "quarantinedir"? or is there a > separate "temp dir"? > > _______________________________________________ > Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca > MIMEDefang mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang > _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
