Brandon Hilkert: > Sorry if this is a stupid question, but how do I go about this. I tried: > > mkdir /ram > mount -t ramfs none /ram > > and when I send a mail, postfix says there's not enough space in the queue. > Should I be doing it a different way?
Postfix requires that the amount of space is several times larger than the message size limit http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#queue_minfree http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#message_size_limit > I also put the queue directory back on an ext3 partition and the rates went > up by about a factor of two. Which confirms that XFS is not the best choice to quickly create/delete of lots of little files. > Also, by default the syslog messages were already set with > " -/var/log/mail.log". I disabled mail logging all together and found no > change in rates. Good. > My disk is writing about 3 MB/s which should be well within it's range. I > would hope even larger, but I would like to work out the ramfs and test for > sure. Bitrates are completely irrelevant. Email is about creating and deleting lots of tiny files. You need to forget everything you learned about web servers, as it does not apply to email. Wietse
