Re: Stuff running slooow

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 1:31 PM
> To: Jim Nasby
> Cc: Marc G. Fournier; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Stuff running slooow
>
>
> > > > Well, if hardware or bandwidth becomes an issue I suspect
> > we could
> > > > easily get donations to improve things.
> > >
> > > IIRC we have plenty of spare both hardware and bandwidth
> on the box
> > > donated by Pervasive. But it runs Linux so you can't just
> > move freebsd
> > > VMs across, which is why it's only used as a web frontent
> > and to run
> > > planetpostgresql.org at the moment.
> >
> > Sorry, itchy send-button...
> >
> > For sending email, there are packages that allow a remote
> > machine to handle email sending duties. This would allow
> > off-loading SMTP duties from the box running the mailman web stuff.
>
> I beleive this is already done. For example, your mail came to me
> through flake.decibel.org.
>
> //Magnus

Which is my machine at home, which is what I generally use for list traffic.

The actual mail-chain for list traffic is svr1.postgresql.org to svr2. Maybe svr2 is handling the bulk emailing already. The delay seems to be on svr1 in any case.

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Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com
Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com 512-569-9461