[rescue] G4 pricing

[Mike Meredith]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:48:05 +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:
> In any case, disk is cheap and you might as well have loads of swap  
> on a Linux box and use it to back tmpfs on /tmp, /var/spool/exim4/ 
> cache and so on.

Ouch! Most of /var/spool/exim certainly doesn't belong on a tmpfs
filesystem ... an MTA is supposed to ensure that a message is securely
written to non-volatile storage before returning the final 'OK' in an
SMTP session. It's fine to have /var/spool/exim/db on tmpfs though ...
which is the hottest point of that hot directory.

Of course I'm somewhat prejudiced in this matter being an old-fashioned
mail administrator ... in reality modern systems are reliable enough
that you may choose to put /var/spool/exim on tmpfs and cope with the
risk of lost messages. 

Of course if you're really worried about how fast messages get into and
out of /var/spool/exim, then may I suggest something other than email
such as IM ?