On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:15:04PM +0000, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:53:18 -0600 (MDT)
> Gilles Chehade wrote:
>
> > smtpd now uses a ram-queue instead of doing
> > a continuous walk on the disk-queue
>
> Does that not increase the chances of losing mail if a crash or panic
> occurs? Of course you may deem the performance improvement to be worth
> it?
>
Nah, don't worry ;-)
The envelopes are not ram-based, they are still stored in a disk-based
queue as has been done since the beginning. The difference is that now
smtpd will also maintain a ram-based queue which will allow it to load
envelopes from disk only when they can be scheduled for delivery.
The ram-queue only affects delivery scheduling, not storage.
--
Gilles Chehade
http://www.poolp.org
