Re: Using perl for a high performance mailer daemon ?

[Greg Cope]

David Cantrell wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:57:27AM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
> > David Cantrell sent the following bits through the ether:
> >
> > > Could you put the queue on a RAM disk?
> >
> > Or just use a lot of memory and a real OS?
> 
> I think you'll find that qmail et al are specifically flushing the cache
> or preventing their stuff from being cached in the first place.
> 
> I suppose you could patch qmail and take out the calls to sync(2) or
> whatever it's doing.

There's a patch to do this, but the bottle neck becomes the app that
manages the queue (qmail-send).

Greg


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