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Author: Daniel Tiefnig
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] High Perf server - was (exim allowed someone to slam my mailserver for 3 hours)
Mark Lowes wrote:
> We hit a bottleneck in db access when I rolled out the ratelimiting,
> moving to a ramdisk has resolved the problem for the moment, though
> I'm not entirely sure what the next step will be.


Shouldn't this make no difference on any reasonable Operating System?
The hints DB should always be in RAM anyways, so I don't see how it
should speed up significantly by placing them on a ramdisk.
Does exim do sync() on its hint DBs?


lg,
daniel