Re: Has anyone used qmail with xfs on Linux 2.4?

[Peter van Dijk]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:56:38PM -0600, Sid Wilroy wrote:
> We seem to have a bottleneck reading our /var/qmail/queue, so we were
> looking at alternatives like:
> 1) Create a large ram disk and have the queue mounted there ( can't seem
> to create a ram disk any larger than 4M) Any ideas on using a ram disk
> for the queue? Has anyone been successful in creating a ram disk larger
> than 4M? How?

Note that you can easily lose mail if you use a ramdisk for queueing.

Greetz, Peter.