‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Saturday, August 22, 2020 12:10 AM, Grant Taylor <gtay...@gentoo.tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
> There is some nebulous area around what that actually means. But the > idea is that the receiving server believes, in good faith, that it has > committed the message to persistent storage. Usually this involves > writing the message to disk, probably via a buffered channel, and then > issued system calls to ask the OS to flush the buffer to disk. just to double check i got you right. due to flushing the buffer to disk, this would mean that mail's throughput is limited by disk i/o? or did i misunderstand? i sort of feel it may suffice to only save to disk, and close fd. then let the kernel choose when to actually store it in disk.
