Along this line of discussion, the issue of DB backend integration is on the list of TODO - I wonder if there has been any discussion or exchange about implementation.
This may help solve some of the scalability issues. _F Brad Knowles wrote: >At 3:07 PM +1000 2005-07-28, Iain Pople wrote: > > > >> We are using Solaris UFS. >> >> > > If switching filesystems is an option, you might want to take a >look at Veritas VxFS. It's a commercial replacement that should be >more than enough for your needs. I've had experience with SGI XFS >(on real SGI hardware), and other journaling filesystems, as well as >other extent-based directory-hashing filesystems, and VxFS beats >everything else I've seen -- hands-down. > > If VxFS isn't an option, keep an eye on ZFS for Solaris 10. I've >heard some really good things about it. > > > Otherwise, you may be forced to have multiple Mailman >installations, each covering a subset of your 15,000 lists. Or, you >may need to come up with a hack to implement a hashed directory >scheme. > > There is an old patch at ><http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=403064&group_id=103&atid=300103> > >which sounds related according to the description, but the comment >from Barry indicates that something similar has already been applied >to the code, which is why this patch was closed. > > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] 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=show&file=faq01.027.htp
