On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:28:34 -0500, Mark Bucciarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 09:35:20AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Spamd uses Berkeley DB - if your disk file is large you will use >> plenty of I/O to it. > >Ok, so looks like my options are: > > (1) take spamd down, call db_checkpoint, copy files, restart spamd > > (2) mess around with db_hotbackup. > >> if your machine is just doing spamd, allocate a lot more of your ram >> for this by increasing bufcachepct in the kernel > >Unfortunately, it's doing a lot of other stuff at the moment so I don't >think this will help much. > >m Please think about what Bob suggested for a moment and then look at your reply. -The overhead and resource usage of creating/maintaining a ram disk is greater than simply increasing the physmem allocation for caching files. JCR
