| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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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 23:45:20 |
| Message-ID: | 20010821193952.G21976-100000@mail1.hub.org |
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 August 2001 12:59, Serguei Mokhov wrote:
> > Looking at my message about the bug webpage and
> > some other posts, I see that it was delayed for
> > about 2h and a half. Some of the post were
> > delayed for days... Why is that? Looks like
> > the list has problems of some sort which cause
> > these irregular delays.
>
> 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? :-)). Newsgroups
Actually, the 'multi-day' delay is generally related to posts from ppl
that aren't subscribed to the lists that I have to approve manually ...
.. as far as server load is concerned, causing several hour delay, we're
just about to put online a dual processor server that has been donated to
the project ... its first task is going to be mailing list distribution
and a open news server for the newsgroups.
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