> I think there's a small design flaw with the once-in-a-wile VERPing scheme. > My biggest list is 180k subscribers, and I've set up Mailman to VERP once > every 10th message. Well, it happened today that the big list was hit by its > VERP time, and it's a bit awful - it looks like the list has taken control > of Mailman, and no other mail can pass through it.
In fact I bragged: it's only 152991 subs :) Here's the smtp log line: Jul 13 02:05:22 2004 (435) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> smtp for 152991 recips, completed in 31782.241 seconds At 02:05 suddenly all the other messages that were waiting to be sent were sent, and the server went into unstable mode (my graphics logs did panic for a while), then everything reverted to normal. In any case, 2 seconds per VERP message for such a big list is too costly, so I'll just disable VERPing the normal messages for now - with the price of not being able to clean the list as efficiently as I could with the occasional VERP. I hope this feedback can be useful, if you have scalability in mind for MM3. -- Fil _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org