On 11/4/07, Brad Knowles wrote: >On 11/4/07, Chuck Peters wrote: >> What is required to make this work properly? > > From the Mailman side, they need to accept your port 25 connections, > and queue and deliver the outgoing messages.
There's one other factor to consider. Handling Internet e-mail is still an I/O bound process, primarily limited by synchronous meta-data operation capacity at the two respective ends, which basically boils down to how fast the disk structure can create new files in the directory, process those files, and then delete them again -- billions and billions of times over. The kind of computer farm that Amazon has created is good for handling compute-intensive tasks. It will be much less useful for general I/O-intensive tasks. Moreover, the Amazon computer farm will be virtually worthless for the specific kinds of tasks that we have to deal with when handling Internet e-mail, because the kinds of high-density rack-mount servers they're going to use will be critically short on the one thing we need most above all else -- low-latency disk drive subsystems which can handle a high rate of synchronous meta-data operations. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> ------------------------------------------------------ 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
