Re: Putting $data_directory on a RAM filesystem

2010-01-24 Thread Stefan Foerster
* Victor Duchovni victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 06:08:40PM +0100, Stefan Foerster wrote: In case of severe server overload, with postscreen(8) complaining about lookup and update times around 400ms almost every mail, is it (reasonably) safe as a last desperate

Putting $data_directory on a RAM filesystem

2010-01-23 Thread Stefan Foerster
In case of severe server overload, with postscreen(8) complaining about lookup and update times around 400ms almost every mail, is it (reasonably) safe as a last desperate measure to put $data_directory, or at least the file referenced by $postscreen_cache_map, on a ramdisk (e.g. tmpfs with

Re: Putting $data_directory on a RAM filesystem

2010-01-23 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 06:08:40PM +0100, Stefan Foerster wrote: In case of severe server overload, with postscreen(8) complaining about lookup and update times around 400ms almost every mail, is it (reasonably) safe as a last desperate measure to put $data_directory, or at least the file

Re: Putting $data_directory on a RAM filesystem

2010-01-23 Thread Wietse Venema
Stefan Foerster: In case of severe server overload, with postscreen(8) complaining about lookup and update times around 400ms almost every mail, is it (reasonably) safe as a last desperate measure to put $data_directory, or at least the file referenced by $postscreen_cache_map, on a ramdisk

Re: Putting $data_directory on a RAM filesystem

2010-01-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Stefan Foerster put forth on 1/23/2010 11:08 AM: In case of severe server overload, with postscreen(8) complaining about lookup and update times around 400ms almost every mail, is it (reasonably) safe as a last desperate measure to put $data_directory, or at least the file referenced by