bayes on tmpfs

[Ramprasad A Padmanabhan <ra...@netcore.co.in>]

Hi,
   We run spamassassin on our Mailservers that receive close to 20k
mails per hour. 
 The problem is SA takes too long especially for the bayesian checks 

  I am thinking of moving the BAYES DB to a tmpfs partition. What are
the pros and cons ? I could write a cron to just copy the bayes to a
harddisk partition for recovery in case of a reboot.  The only concern
is that there would be too much of memory consumed because bayes by
itself also caches a lot in the memory


Thanks
Ram 

Re: bayes on tmpfs

[Michael Monnerie <m....@zmi.at>]

On Samstag, 5. November 2005 10:24 Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote:
> I am thinking of moving the BAYES DB to a tmpfs partition.

What about using MySQL? It should be speedy, and "system builder" is 
using for such a solution, too (see thread "HUGE bayes DB 
(non-sitewide) advice?"). A good hint for big systems would help many 
people, and would be good to put on the Wiki.

mfg zmi
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