Re: [Mimedefang] using a RAM disk for mimedefang temp directory?

2005-04-28 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Sorry, read that as: I got tired of the disk I/O grind from DB3 & bayes/AWL so I switched to mySQL which seems much better on using reources efficiently. KAM On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 09:10:50PM -0400, David F. Skoll wrote: > Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > > > [keeping Bayes DB in RAM is] Probably a g

Re: [Mimedefang] using a RAM disk for mimedefang temp directory?

2005-04-27 Thread David F. Skoll
Kevin A. McGrail wrote: [keeping Bayes DB in RAM is] Probably a good move. I got a little tired of the disk I/O grind with DB and Bayes/AWL and I'm using mySQL. It seems much better on using the resources of the server most efficiently. That's strange. We use our own Bayes implementation in CanI

Re: [Mimedefang] using a RAM disk for mimedefang temp directory?

2005-04-27 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Probably a good move. I got a little tired of the disk I/O grind with DB and Bayes/AWL and I'm using mySQL. It seems much better on using the resources of the server most efficiently. Regards, KAM I keep my bayes database on the ramdisk. My init scripts copy the db to disk on shutdown, and c

Re: [Mimedefang] using a RAM disk for mimedefang temp directory?

2005-04-27 Thread -ray
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: NOTE: You'll want to place your bayesian database and auto-whitelist somewhere else as noted by Bill Curtis! I keep my bayes database on the ramdisk. My init scripts copy the db to disk on shutdown, and copy into ramdisk on startup. Sendmail is rest

Re: [Mimedefang] using a RAM disk for mimedefang temp directory?

2005-04-27 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, April 27, 2005 3:28 PM -0400 "David F. Skoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Check the FAQ, especially: http://www.mimedefang.org/kwiki/index.cgi?RamBasedSpoolDirectory If you've been happy with MIMEDefang and have NOT been using a RAM disk, you must have a pretty low mail volume. I'v

Re: [Mimedefang] using a RAM disk for mimedefang temp directory?

2005-04-27 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
- Original Message - From: "Matthew Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 3:15 PM Subject: [Mimedefang] using a RAM disk for mimedefang temp directory? > we've been using mimedefang+spamassassin under sendmail for quite some > time now, very

RE: [Mimedefang] using a RAM disk for mimedefang temp directory?

2005-04-27 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > we've been using mimedefang+spamassassin under sendmail for quite some > time now, very successfully. > > looking around for ways to speed things up and/or just make them more > efficient ... wondering if anyone has experience using a RAM disk > (tmpfs as opposed to an e

Re: [Mimedefang] using a RAM disk for mimedefang temp directory?

2005-04-27 Thread David F. Skoll
Matthew Ward wrote: > looking around for ways to speed things up and/or just make them more > efficient ... wondering if anyone has experience using a RAM disk > (tmpfs as opposed to an expen$ive solid state disk) for mimedefang's > temporary directory? :-) Check the FAQ, especially: http://www.

[Mimedefang] using a RAM disk for mimedefang temp directory?

2005-04-27 Thread Matthew Ward
we've been using mimedefang+spamassassin under sendmail for quite some time now, very successfully. looking around for ways to speed things up and/or just make them more efficient ... wondering if anyone has experience using a RAM disk (tmpfs as opposed to an expen$ive solid state disk) for mimede