Re: List response time...

On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> 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.

Can I put qmail on it first?

Vince.
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