From: | David Ford <david(at)blue-labs(dot)org> |
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To: | Ian Lance Taylor <ian(at)airs(dot)com> |
Cc: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Serguei Mokhov <sa_mokho(at)alcor(dot)concordia(dot)ca>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Re: List response time... |
Date: | 2001-08-24 06:07:57 |
Message-ID: | 3B85EF3D.90108@blue-labs.org |
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Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>>Mailing lists don't scale well to large numbers of subscribers. I see this
>>delay constantly,on multiple lists. The bigger the list gets, the slower the
>>list gets (and the more loaded the server gets, right Marc? :-)).
>>
>
>Note that the postgresql.org mail server is still running sendmail.
>In my personal experience with sources.redhat.com, qmail is a much
>better choice to handle large mailing lists. When we switched from
>sendmail to qmail, mailing list delays dropped from hours, or
>sometimes even days, to seconds.
>
It's all in the configuration. I slam mails around dozens of machines
in seconds using sendmail and I process a lot of mail.
David
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