Re: [exim] Should queue processing be rewritten in Exim?

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Author: Florian Weimer
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To: Marc Perkel
CC: exim-user
Subject: Re: [exim] Should queue processing be rewritten in Exim?
* Marc Perkel:

> The bottleneck is the queue and I've noticed that if I use a ram disk
> for the queue that I can process many times as much mail with var lower
> load levels that using disk based queue. Ideally if I had a battery back
> up ram disk card that would be ideal but I can't find that anywhere.


RAID controllers with a battery-backed cache serve basically the same
purpose. Models with 1 GB of cache are beginning to become
affordable. You probably should use RAID 10 instead of RAID 5.

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