[Mailman-Users] Large List Considerations

2004-02-05 Thread Hunter Hillegas
Hello, I have configured mailman and we're about to start populating a mailing list with almost 20,000 members. Any special considerations for lists this large? Any advice appreciated. Thanks, Hunter -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Mailman-Users] Large List Considerations

2004-02-05 Thread Jon Carnes
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 15:24, Hunter Hillegas wrote: Hello, I have configured mailman and we're about to start populating a mailing list with almost 20,000 members. Any special considerations for lists this large? Any advice appreciated. Thanks, Hunter Depending on your Disk

Re: [Mailman-Users] Large List Considerations

2004-02-05 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:24 PM -0800 2004/02/05, Hunter Hillegas wrote: I have configured mailman and we're about to start populating a mailing list with almost 20,000 members. Any special considerations for lists this large? See Rob Kolstad's paper Tuning Sendmail for Large Mailing Lists at

Re: [Mailman-Users] Large List Considerations

2004-02-05 Thread Brad Knowles
At 4:28 PM -0500 2004/02/05, Jon Carnes wrote: Depending on your Disk sub-system, Processor, and amount of RAM, 20k members may be not be a lot for Mailman to handle. Yes. Keep in mind that we've had people complain about performance with Mailman on some systems with 50k users, and yet

Re: [Mailman-Users] Large List Considerations

2004-02-05 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 22:28, Jon Carnes wrote: [...] If however you find that messages spend a long time in the queue before being processed (or web-access to the list configuration is very slow to load) then you might want to consider putting aside some ram for use as a disk. You can copy

Re: [Mailman-Users] Large List Considerations

2004-02-05 Thread Jon Carnes
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 18:06, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 22:28, Jon Carnes wrote: [...] If however you find that messages spend a long time in the queue before being processed (or web-access to the list configuration is very slow to load) then you might want to consider

Re: [Mailman-Users] Large List Considerations

2004-02-05 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:06 AM +0100 2004/02/06, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: Which raises the question if simply adding the RAM to the system thus increasing the disk cache (and not dedicated to just one part of the app and - given the above description - wasting 50% of it almost completely, not considering