What filesystem are you using? If you're on ext2, once you hit a 2GB size on your mbox file, mailman is probably going to choke. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Tanner [mailto:tanner at real-time.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 12:30 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Slow list > > > Quoting Ben Lutgens (blutgens at sistina.com): > > > design does not lead to a distributed processing model. The > > > bottleneck will always be the mbox file and the > write-exclusive lock > > > to it. > > > > Yeah, too bad there's not a filesystem that supports byte-range > > locking (that I know of) > > A better solution, IMHO, would be to strip the archiving part > of mailman out and make it a seperate process. Thus, you'd be > able to distribute the receiving/delivery and archiving/web processes. > > The hard "hit" on the list server is appending files to the > huge mbox files. But the next hardest "hit" is all the search > engines spidering the archives. > > > > -- > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. > Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-> linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >