Hi, On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 15:04 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote: > P.S. The list is ridiculously slow. Grrr. I have complained to the gnu > sysadmins and will let you know if they have any comments.
At least they are fast :) I asked if I could quote their response to the list and this is what they said: > Yes, please do, and accept my apologies for the current state of > things. I can only promise that we will do everything we can to make > it better in the future. > [...] > Unfortunately, the situation is really that lists.gnu.org, a > uniprocessor Athlon XP machine with older IDE disks - in reality a > desktop machine - is servicing over 2500+ lists (plus regular web > access from maintainers to said lists). Even assuming it was not being > bombarded with spam, it would still struggle to keep up with this > load. > > We are, however, nearing the GPLv3 launch process, which will mean > that after the conference, sysadmin time will be free again to work on > the replacement for lists (which is a 4-way Opteron 270 (2x dual core) > with 4gb of RAM and fast 10K RPM disks - a slight improvement :) ). > > > Sorry for complaining. If there is anything we can do, please let us > > know. > > Your complaints are totally reasonable and understandable, but our > hands are tied until we can get the new list server going. Any time we > spend on re-engineering the current Rube Goldberg-esque setup detracts > from the goal of replacing it entirely with something vastly more > efficient.
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