Re: Puting the Postfix's queue into RAM disk

2015-11-17 Thread Istvan Prosinger
The problem is tha there is that one VPS and I wanted 2nd opinions about my dirty plan. Thanks On 2015-11-15 19:03, Matthew McGehrin wrote: Is it possible to configure a 2nd VPS instance just for fallback_relay? That way your primary queue is only for deliveries, and your 2nd instance can handl

Re: Puting the Postfix's queue into RAM disk

2015-11-15 Thread Matthew McGehrin
Is it possible to configure a 2nd VPS instance just for fallback_relay? That way your primary queue is only for deliveries, and your 2nd instance can handle the bounces. I was working for an Online Gaming company and we would deliver 1-2 million messages per day, we had 3 active queues, and 1

Re: Puting the Postfix's queue into RAM disk

2015-11-14 Thread Istvan Prosinger
On 13.11.2015 22:53, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 11/13/15 14:17, Istvan Prosinger wrote: I got two options that I know of. Signifficantly shortening the queue lifetime, or (not) losing the queue from the RAM disk. Just trying to measure which is worse (or to hear something new for me) If you l

Re: Puting the Postfix's queue into RAM disk

2015-11-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 11/13/15 14:17, Istvan Prosinger wrote: > I got two options that I know of. Signifficantly shortening the queue > lifetime, or (not) losing the queue from the RAM disk. > Just trying to measure which is worse (or to hear something new for me) If you lack disk space for the queue, the server in

Re: Puting the Postfix's queue into RAM disk

2015-11-13 Thread Istvan Prosinger
Ok. As I mentioned, SSD is not an option on this project. Only RAM or Raid 10 (shared with other VPSes) On 13.11.2015 20:56, Ken Simpson wrote: We deliver tens of millions per server per day using SSD spools... On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 11:18 AM Istvan Prosinger mailto:ist...@prosinger.net>> wrot

Re: Puting the Postfix's queue into RAM disk

2015-11-13 Thread Ken Simpson
We deliver tens of millions per server per day using SSD spools... On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 11:18 AM Istvan Prosinger wrote: > I got two options that I know of. Signifficantly shortening the queue > lifetime, or (not) losing the queue from the RAM disk. > Just trying to measure which is worse (or

Re: Puting the Postfix's queue into RAM disk

2015-11-13 Thread Istvan Prosinger
I got two options that I know of. Signifficantly shortening the queue lifetime, or (not) losing the queue from the RAM disk. Just trying to measure which is worse (or to hear something new for me) On 13.11.2015 16:17, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 11/13/15 04:44, Istvan Prosinger wrote: Hello, I'

Re: Puting the Postfix's queue into RAM disk

2015-11-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 11/13/15 04:44, Istvan Prosinger wrote: > Hello, > > I'll have a project to send 300-400k emails a day from a new IP address > with one server. This can build up a signifficant mail queue on the > server. > We have several similar solutions already working but this time the idea > is to have

Re: Puting the Postfix's queue into RAM disk

2015-11-13 Thread Harald Koch
On 13 November 2015 at 07:51, Istvan Prosinger wrote: > > The point here is that at the start of this, a temporary deferred mail > queue will build up signifficantly pushing most of the load on the file > system, and the idea is to speed up the queue processing to prevent killing > the server (ex

Re: Puting the Postfix's queue into RAM disk

2015-11-13 Thread Istvan Prosinger
On 2015-11-13 12:53, Leonardo Rodrigues wrote: Em 13/11/15 08:09, Patrick Ben Koetter escreveu: * Istvan Prosinger : Hello, I'll have a project to send 300-400k emails a day from a new IP address with one server. This can build up a signifficant mail queue on the server. We have several simila

Re: Puting the Postfix's queue into RAM disk

2015-11-13 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
Em 13/11/15 08:09, Patrick Ben Koetter escreveu: * Istvan Prosinger : Hello, I'll have a project to send 300-400k emails a day from a new IP address with one server. This can build up a signifficant mail queue on the server. We have several similar solutions already working but this time the id

Re: Puting the Postfix's queue into RAM disk

2015-11-13 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
Em 13/11/15 08:09, Patrick Ben Koetter escreveu: * Istvan Prosinger : Hello, I'll have a project to send 300-400k emails a day from a new IP address with one server. This can build up a signifficant mail queue on the server. We have several similar solutions already working but this time the id

Re: Puting the Postfix's queue into RAM disk

2015-11-13 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Istvan Prosinger : > Hello, > > I'll have a project to send 300-400k emails a day from a new IP > address with one server. This can build up a signifficant mail queue > on the server. > We have several similar solutions already working but this time the > idea is to have me do this on a VPS (no

Puting the Postfix's queue into RAM disk

2015-11-13 Thread Istvan Prosinger
Hello, I'll have a project to send 300-400k emails a day from a new IP address with one server. This can build up a signifficant mail queue on the server. We have several similar solutions already working but this time the idea is to have me do this on a VPS (no SSD drives involved), h