"Bodnyk, Bruce W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running mailman on a Compaq 450Mz Pentium II with 512Mb of memory. I > started adding users by sending an email to the list-request and the > email has about 50 names on it. I'm finding that Mailman is adding at max > two people per minute. > > I'm wondering whether this machine may be too slow to serve as a mail > exploder. Or possibly there may be some customizations or tweaking I can > do to speed up the Mailman processing.
I built out a mailing list with 1800 members with bin/add_members, and it was slow to add them. I later found out the drag was due mostly to all the bounces that were coming back. (There were over two hundred dead addresses in that set.) Machine is a P3/550MHz with 512MB RAM, running NetBSD 1.5.1. It's only been a few days, but I have seen no performance problems with mailman delivery since. We're running postfix for the MTA. Cleaning out the dead addresses was critical. We average about 100 messages a day. My only real problem right now is trying to push 360MB worth of majordomo archives through pipermail without crashing pipermail. Morgan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
