Quoting Mike Bresnahan (mbresnah at visi.com): > Bob, can you give us some explanation where the 7 million hits per month are > coming from? People searching lkml archives. Searching spiders indexing lkml archives. > Certainly the TCLUG members are not searching the archives that much? Correct, most of the traffic is google. > If so, could we turn off searching and see how that effects list > performance? It's not the searching, it's the spiders, mostly. > By the way, how many people are subscribed to the list? I'm guessing less > than 5000? Correct. > It just seems odd to me that the list requires state of the art hardware. > People have been running mailing lists the size of TCLUG's for many years on > much slower hardware, no? I'm confused. Again. TCLUG's mailing lists is made up of several mailing lists. tclug-list, tclug-announce, tclug-jobs, tclug-devel, and linux-kernel. -- 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