On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 5:02 PM, RW <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:03:33 -0800 > Glenn Park wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm new to Debian and am trying to understand the Right way to >> configure the standard (aptitude-installed) spamassassin package to >> use tmpfs shared memory for its temporary directory. >> >> ... >> Also, how can I test/verify where SpamAssassin thinks its temporary >> directory is? Right now mail volume is next to nothing, so temp files >> seem to get cleaned up faster than I can check /tmp to see if in fact >> SA is putting any there. > > I don't think it's used for much apart from pyzor and the non-daemon > version of DCC.
Oh really? Is the advice that you find around claiming performance improvements by situating SpamAssassin on tmpfs wrong? Outdated?
