Re: [exim] High Perf server - was (exim allowed someone to s…

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