You may want to have syslog log to a log host.
That way it doesn't fsync on your machine.
Dirk
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 03:06:13PM -0400, Matthew Harrell wrote:
>
> Since we're on the subject of speed recently, is there a way limit the size of
> the message queue in qmail?
>
> Here's my situation: I'm sending out a large list of messages and it certainly
> seems like the queueing process operates much faster than the smtp process
> which results in a large number of messages in the queue. This has got to
> slow things down so I thought it would be nice if I could limit the queue
> size to say 200 messages at a time. Is this possible?
>
> This would also be nice for some error recovery if I decide to put the whole
> queue directory on a ramdisk. After all, if it crashes I've just lost all
> traceability on my mailing list.
>
> Is the syslog-alternative program for qmail (I can't think of it's name right
> now) a great deal faster? I also presently have syslog turned off for
> everything beyond major errors because it was causing a serious load on my
> system.
>
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