On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Peter Kofod wrote: > Hi Everyone: > > I am new to this list having just implemented mailman for an > announce-list we host. In short, the performance is horrible. The list > has approx 40,000 subscribers and the avg message going out is about 40K > (some embedded imagery). I know we can do better with lazy html etc., > but the system has become unresponsive.
Generally, mailman does not really cope with *very* large lists too well. It is still my system of choice. > Here are the specifics: > > Fedora Core 5 > Mailman, Postfix (FC 5 releases), Apache, Sendmail Are you running spamassasin and similar? Looking at the header, do you see a significant time lapse between certain hops? > It has gotten to the point where we can't even manage the system via the > web interface (keep getting a 500 Internal Server error). I am > obviously no mailman or postfix guru, so any pointers on where I should > look in the logs and make changes would be helpful. > > Thanks, > > Pete > ------------------------------------------------------ > 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/ge%40linuxbox.org > > Security Policy: > http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp > ------------------------------------------------------ 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=show&file=faq01.027.htp
