Ram:
> One server of ours just accepts the mails from clients and then relays
> the mails to other servers. 
> Since there is almost no mail queued on the server , I think it is will
> be good to mount /var/spool/postfix on a tmpfs partition. 
> 
> The machine ( linux Centos 5.4  + postfix 2.7 ) has enough Memory free
> all the time. 
> 
> The ramdisk seems to work great. But sporadically some smtp clients are
> getting an error 
> "Insufficient system storage"
> 
> When will this happen ?

Look in your maillog file, and perhaps in your KERNEL log.

> Does postfix find not enough space on the
> ramdisk ?

The KERNEL looks for space, not Postfix. Do not blame the messenger
(Postfix) for bad news from the kernel.

        Wietse

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