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. -- Minneapolis St. Paul Twin Cities MN | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org Minnesota Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9