> That, and using ramdisks for the spool (as you and Theo have suggested
> more
> than once in the past) might help speed things up far more. Costs $$$
> though, compared to ordinary hard drives ...
Actually - if you have decent memory, running ramfs works pretty well
(though of course you lose the possibility of spool crash-recovery).
Using solid-state disks on first-tier mx's seems like a waste of money.
Even with trying to reduce the amount of time that mail spends on your
primary relay, under heavy load even a 60 second average residency time
can make for a large amount of spooled mail at any given time.
Protecting that seems worthwhile to me.
>
> -srs
>
>
>
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