David Cantrell wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:41:45AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:39:32AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
> > > Greg Cope sent the following bits through the ether:
> > > > I want to design a mailer for sending large numbers of individual
> > > > messages to a large list.
> > >
> > > You're writing a mailer in Perl. Mailers have been done before. If
> > > you're using a slow one, then look at other ones, such as exim.
> >
> > The trouble is that practically all mailers will write the queue file to
> > disk before they do *anything* else, for safety reasons. If I
> > understood the initial message correctly, this is his problem.
>
> Could you put the queue on a RAM disk?
Tried it, and it helps, but you need a huge ammount of RAM, and also
this is often not the only bottleneck - the process dealing with the
queue is often the bottleneck (assuming fast disks).
Greg
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