Question on Amavis and ramdisk

[Willem Jan Withagen]

On 21-8-2017 15:40, RW via freebsd-ports wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 14:47:43 +0200
> Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> In the amavis rc.d file is noted:
>> "========================================================"
>> "WARNING: using ramdisk is reported to be unstable and"
>> "thus it is highly recommended to be turned off."
>> "========================================================"
>>
>> And this warning seems there since 2012....
> 
> 
> 
> Actually it came in with revision 228889 in 2009. The script at
> that point didn't allow for tmpfs and only checks for an existing md
> device before creating a malloc md device (i.e. in unswapable wired
> kernel memory).  IIRC there used to be a warning about this kind of md
> device being able to cause crashes.

Ah, oke,

That I can remember too. But I think that is no longer the case.
Perhaps now with the new rc.d stuff tmpfs is more appropriate.

--WjW