On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 10:27 +0200, Bjorn Jensen wrote: > Can spamassassin benefit in any way from a ramdisk ? > The server we have for spamassassin, has 3 gigs of ram, and spamd > doesn't even use 1 gig of that, so I thought perhaps it would speed > things up if I could place something on a ramdisk. But this leads to the > question, does spamassassin do any disk intensive things ? > I'm running that gocr image scanning as well, could this benefit from > it, or is it the network lookups that are the slow part in any case ? > Currently a mail is processed in about 1.5 - 6 seconds > > regards, > Bjorn Jensen >
Can you get your MTA to write in the ramdisk while it is queing/scanning the mail. That is where you will get most of your speed. But this may not be a safe option always. Typically using scanners like Mailscanner , you could do the actual Mail scanning when the mail is on the ramdisk. That gives you good performance benefit. http://www.mailscanner.info/serve/cache/120.html Thanks Ram
