Quoting Jon Schewe (jpschewe at mtu.net):
> Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> writes:
> 
> > Yes, the list is slow. As lamer says, "... wicked LKML injection ...". But
> > sending email to the list asking if it is slow doesn't help speed things up.
> > 
> 
> Is there a way that we can help speed up the LKML injection?  Perhaps in a
> distributed fashion?
> 
> 

mailman's design is very poor, it stores the archives as 1 huge mbox file. This
design does not lead to a distributed processing model. The bottleneck will
always be the mbox file and the write-exclusive lock to it.


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