Dear All
I am considering using a RAMDISK for /var/qmail/queue by buying another
256 meg DIM, as RAM prices appear to be quite low at the moment ;-)
This is for a personalised (time dependant) newsletter system. The RAM
disk would be made / formatted at boot, along with copying an empty
qmail queue structure onto it.
Newsletters tend to be in small batches, made quite often. If the
RAMDISK goes pop and the queue is lost this is not a major issue as the
batch could be re-run. This means someone may get it twice - this is
accpetable as long as this type of failure is not often (often > yearly
).
Has anyone any empirical evidence for the speed increases I may expect
(as opposed to a fast EIDI (ATA 66, 8.5ms seek) or SCSI system (eg 10k,
5.3 ms seek 25mb/s) ?
Greg
