6 May
2004
6 May
'04
10:13 a.m.
Maren S. Leizaola wrote:
It also beats ram drives as it does not require the machines CPU to do the IO.
How does the data get on and off the board then?
SSDs are most frequently used for accelerating databases, especially OLTP, which has some similarities to what MTAs do, so it's worth a shot. My concern would be those rare occasions where your queue was inflated beyond the capacity of such a device - would your MTA software cope gracefully?
Given the unpredictable torrents of spam and viruses which can clog and swell mail queues, making sure that the queue ccould grow without bursting, and, perhaps, be cleaned in situ, would seem to me to be as important as making sure it can be processed as quickly as possible in the steady-state.