On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 05:15:04PM -0500, scohen wrote: > > On my machine: > > > > /dev/ram0 483886 46 458840 1% > > /var/spool/MIMEDefang > > /dev/ram1 483886 132675 326211 29% /var/spool/bayes > > > > > With your setup you can lose 23 hours worth of data. The question for you > is is that acceptable or not?
Yeah, that is an acceptable worst-case scenario. > Btw, do you make sure your database isn't > being used when you copy it? If not, have you tried to use a backup? I don't do anything to ensure it isn't in use. My startup script copies the latest backup over to the ramdisk after creating it, and so far with three servers and a few reboots over the last couple years I haven't had an issue. The other performance boost I got was to specify noatime for the var filesystem, where sendmail's spool dir resides. Matt -- Matthew S. Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Office: 717-396-5032 Infrastructure Security Analyst Fax: 717-396-5590 Armstrong World Industries, Inc. Cell: 717-917-7099 _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang