Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

[Caveman Al Toraboran]

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On Saturday, August 22, 2020 12:10 AM, Grant Taylor <gtaylor@×××××××××××××××××××××.net> wrote:

> There is some nebulous area around what that actually means. But the
> idea is that the receiving server believes, in good faith, that it has
> committed the message to persistent storage. Usually this involves
> writing the message to disk, probably via a buffered channel, and then
> issued system calls to ask the OS to flush the buffer to disk.

just to double check i got you right.  due to
flushing the buffer to disk, this would mean that
mail's throughput is limited by disk i/o?

or did i misunderstand?

i sort of feel it may suffice to only save to
disk, and close fd.  then let the kernel choose
when to actually store it in disk.