Re: [Mailman-Users] maximum size of mailman .mbox files
Brad == Brad Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brad At 2:59 PM -0500 2005-08-17, Stephen S Kelley wrote: I'm running mailman 2.1.5 on fedora2 and the box has ample resources. Are there any OS problems a 2GB? Brad Dunno. But you'd be more likely to get an answer to Brad your question if you used resources appropriate to your OS. If John Dennis doesn't show up shortly with an answer, I recommend you write to Red Hat support and ask about large file support in Python. A second possibility would be to ask about it on comp.lang.python, but you may simply be ignored there, not even get a try another channel response. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of TsukubaTennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can do free software business; ask what your business can do for free software. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] maximum size of mailman .mbox files
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 16:17 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Brad At 2:59 PM -0500 2005-08-17, Stephen S Kelley wrote: I'm running mailman 2.1.5 on fedora2 and the box has ample resources. Are there any OS problems a 2GB? Brad Dunno. But you'd be more likely to get an answer to Brad your question if you used resources appropriate to your OS. If John Dennis doesn't show up shortly with an answer, I recommend you write to Red Hat support and ask about large file support in Python. Sorry, I was lurking because I don't have any definitive information at my finger tips. The answer has two components, the max file size of the file system and the max file size python can handle. I'm assuming the installation is on an ext3 partition. The max files size on ext3 depends on the block size, it ranges from 16GB to 4TB on a 32bit CPU. However python and other software has to be able to manage file pointer offsets, which without any direct knowledge I suspect are 32 bit representations on a 32 bit CPU. I suspect that probably limits practical file sizes using python to 4GB. But like I said, I don't know this as a fact, just guessing. Bottom line, I don't think you're likely to have a problem any time soon just based on file sizes. The time to process an archive of that size, the likelyhood of corrupted individual emails in an mbox of that size, and the utility of that much data are other issues. -- John Dennis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
Re: [Mailman-Users] maximum size of mailman .mbox files
At 2:59 PM -0500 2005-08-17, Stephen S Kelley wrote: I'm wondering how large one can let the mailman .mbox files grow safely. One has grown to 428MB with no sign of problems. I am able to rebuild the archive though it takes a while. There is no built in limit to mailbox size within Mailman. I'm running mailman 2.1.5 on fedora2 and the box has ample resources. Are there any OS problems a 2GB? Dunno. But you'd be more likely to get an answer to your question if you used resources appropriate to your OS. -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See http://www.sage.org/ for more info. -- Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=showamp;file=faq01.027.htp
