Has anyone considered putting the spool partition on a RAM drive?
sure, esp when on an IMGate relay, the msgs typically spend less the 10
seconds in the system.
I
haven't thought about RAM drives since DOS but for a Store and Forward
server it would mean the messages would never have to touch th
Flash Ram can be mounted as an IDE device. It is faster than a drive,
but slower than DRAM. Cost is minimal... .but my concern is 'how many
times can it be written to and erased?'... Is it infinite or is there a
limit? It works great for the journal drive in journaling file systems
and I have cons
Ram drive for the Spool is the fastest way to go.
However, I would make sure it had the capability to save to disk during
shutdown.
John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA
Engineer/Consultant
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> Any thoughts or caveats?
The ramdrive.sys from the DDK tops out at 32 MB, I believe, so don't
use that one! We've used the third-party RAM drive software from
SuperSpeed, which works amazingly well as an accelerator. The caveat
is clear: BSOD, power outage, etc. = an unknowable am
