Re: [Exim] Performance bottleneck scanning large spools.

scot@??? (Scot Elliott) wrote on 31.12.99 in <Pine.GSO.4.10.9912311413500.22258-100000@liam>:

> FreeBSD has a soft-updates feature that would speed such a system up - I
> don't know linux very well but if it has a similar feature you might want
> to consider using it. We're intending trying this so stop deliveries that
> can happen immediately from never hitting the disk.

BSD soft-updates is very similar to the default state of affairs for ext2.
(And the sync option makes _everything_ synchronous, according to the
manpage.)

However, mounting the file system noatime might help. I don't think exim
needs access times for those files.

MfG Kai