Re: Using a RAMDISK for /var/qmail/queue thoughts ?

[Mark Delany]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 05:46:51PM -0600, David L. Nicol wrote:
> David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> 
> > Um, most reporting measured results from optimizing high-traffic
> > qmail-based mail servers have found that disk activity on the queue
> > disk is the first limit they hit.
> 
> 
> How about, if the first delivery fails, pass it off to a server with
> some disks.  Why not pre-process with qmail-remote before queueing?

qmail-remote is way too late as most of the I/O load is putting the
mail in the queue, not getting it off.  Besides, the symptom isn't
delivery failure, it's slowness.


Regards.