[spamdyke-users] Reducing hard disk usage

2013-10-31 Thread BC
Does anyone use some sort of RAMdisk or memory disk to hold the graylist? I just did a 'du' on my graylist and it takes up 85mb of space. I'm trying to reduce the amount of hard drive accesses going on. ___ s

[spamdyke-users] Reducing hard disk usage

2013-10-31 Thread BC
Darn Thunderbird update...changed my default settings. Here was my question: Does anyone use some sort of RAMdisk or memory disk to hold the graylist? I just did a 'du' on my gra

Re: [spamdyke-users] Reducing hard disk usage

2013-10-31 Thread Gary Gendel
Well sort of... With ZFS this happens automatically because the file information is cached in the ARC RAM unless forced out. I'm currently running a 91% cache hit rate on this server which runs file, web, streaming, and mail services. It's running OpenIndiana (hipster) and has 4G RAM with 4

Re: [spamdyke-users] Reducing hard disk usage

2013-10-31 Thread Lutz Petersen
> Does anyone use some sort of RAMdisk or memory disk to hold the greylist We don't greylist. But all external (receiving only) Frontend Servers Mailers are running in Ramdisks. This gives extremely good results espacially when receiving extreme high amounts of incoming Mails.. If rebooting

Re: [spamdyke-users] Reducing hard disk usage

2013-11-01 Thread BC
You actually answered another question I had as well.  I noticed in my latest server-build, that the 'top' command shows an additional line that I'd not seen on the previous server:  Mem: 36M Active, 29M Inact, 206M Wired, 5647M Free  ARC: 59M Total, 12M MFU, 45

Re: [spamdyke-users] Reducing hard disk usage

2013-11-01 Thread BC
You are doing what I want to do.  Which RAMdisk program are you running?  Do you have a script that flushes the RAMdisk contents to disk periodically, so the info on the hard disk doesn't get too stale between reboots? Could you share your init Script(s) wi

Re: [spamdyke-users] Reducing hard disk usage

2013-11-01 Thread BC
The other question I forgot to ask... With zfs and 4G RAM running, the prefetch is automatically disabled.  Did you make the loader.conf change to enable prefetch caching anyway? Thanks. On 11/1/2013 11:00 AM, spamdyke-users-requ...@spamdyke.

Re: [spamdyke-users] Reducing hard disk usage

2013-11-01 Thread Gary Gendel
Prefetch is evil and is disabled by default in illumos based distributions (in newer versions it is enabled for scrubs since these are sequential in nature and can get a performance boost). I'm talking about the Adaptive Replacement Cache (ARC). This uses various metrics such as lru to determ

Re: [spamdyke-users] Reducing hard disk usage

2013-11-01 Thread BC
I can see I have some reading to do.  Thanks. On 11/1/2013 1:32 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: Prefetch is evil and is disabled by default in illumos based distributions (in newer versions it is enabled for scrubs sinc