| From: | Ian Lance Taylor <ian(at)airs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> |
| Cc: | "Serguei Mokhov" <sa_mokho(at)alcor(dot)concordia(dot)ca>, "PostgreSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: List response time... |
| Date: | 2001-08-21 20:24:27 |
| Message-ID: | sid75p17r8.fsf@daffy.airs.com |
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Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> writes:
> 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.
Ian
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