Re: claim: qmail uses more bandwidth

[Matthew Kirkwood]

On 12 Jan 1999, Russ Allbery wrote:

> > I've posted messages to linux-smp that have taken over 12 hours to get
> > posted (or at least to be returned to me..)
>
> > The qmail mailing list, on the other hand, usually has a 1-2 second
> > turnaround.
>
> Without knowledge of hardware platforms, list size, and network
> bandwidth at the host site, not to mention relative position of your
> address in the two mailing lists, this really isn't a useful comparison.

I don't know about bandwidth, but I suspect that's not a big issue.
vger's hardware is a SPARCclassic w/40MHz CPU, 128Mb RAM and (I believe)
a single 3.5Gb disk.  See me other post for information about list size.

Must of the problem was that CVS is on the same spindle as the mail queue,
and latency has been greatly reduced by turning off anonymous CVS for now.

Matthew.