Re: [Exim] exim's databases and sql

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:09:54AM +0100, Alan Thew wrote:
> > In environments where the queues get long and many messages cannot be
> > immediately delivered, the way Exim works is less than optimal. That's
> > unfortunate. If only I could have foreseen just how widely it would be
> > used... Actually, that probably wouldn't have helped much. I knew a lot
> > less in 1995 that I do now.
> >
> Do people use tmpfs for this and does it really help?

tmpfs helps *a little*, but really not a huge amount. Certainly not as
much as you'd think it would - and this is really because the
problematic mechanism doesn't change. All you do is speed everything up.
So you get more problems per second, but also more successes per second
:-)