On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 22:28, Jon Carnes wrote: [...] > If however you find that messages spend a long time in the queue before > being processed (or web-access to the list configuration is very slow to > load) then you might want to consider putting aside some ram for use as > a disk. You can copy your ~mailman/lists/... to this RAM drive and > mount it over the ~mailman/lists (then startup Mailman). Access to the > lists and configuration will then be much faster. > > Note: the RAM drive *must* be at least twice the size as the data stored > in it, so that Mailman can make backup copies of the config files while > doing changes.
Which raises the question if simply adding the RAM to the system thus increasing the disk cache (and not dedicated to just one part of the app and - given the above description - wasting 50% of it almost completely, not considering fault-tolerance and similar) won't be as good (if not batter)´? Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org