Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2006-07-24 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:56 PM +0300 2006-07-24, Naglaa El-Deeb wrote: I am looking for suggestions on a hardware purchase. See FAQ 1.15 and 1.24. Start at http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py if you don't know what I'm talking about. -- Brad Knowles, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who would give up

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-12 Thread matthew . malthouse
On 12/07/2002 06:34:00 alex wetmore wrote: Various companies, such as cenatek.com, make hardware that meet these requirements. It isn't very affordable though, and most servers would probably do just as well with a well thought out RAID array (that means avoiding RAID 5, which has very poor

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-12 Thread Scott Courtney
On Friday 12 July 2002 01:34 am, alex wetmore wrote: Here is the important section: [...] Thanks for the additional information. Scott -- ---+-- Scott Courtney | I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-11 Thread Scott Courtney
On Thursday 11 July 2002 09:13 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agree with all that. Am using Compaq 380, 5 x 36 Gb hard discs and hardware Raid5, 1Gb RAM and 512Mb swap, Reiserfs. However on these machines mailman is sending batches of mail to separate MTA/relays. That's a good idea, too,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-11 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:43:06 -0400 Scott Courtney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 11 July 2002 12:14 am, J C Lawrence wrote: a) Add more RAM. Number of queue runners for your MTA Here's a silly question: Is it worth considering *really* upping the RAM, say to two gigabytes, and then

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-11 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 16:59, J C Lawrence wrote: [I have reordered the quotes here - sorry if I have broken the meaning] Journalling actually is a loss in this sort of scenario due to the extra tracking and buffer copy overhead. The nice thing about ReiserFS and XFS in particular is that the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-11 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:39:00 -0400 Scott Courtney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 11 July 2002 09:13 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In that kind of an environment, my idea for a RAMDISK-based /var/spool/mqueue might not be so far-fetched, on the Mailman machine iteslf, because the mail

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-11 Thread Scott Courtney
On Thursday 11 July 2002 11:59 am, J C Lawrence wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:43:06 -0400 Scott Courtney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 11 July 2002 12:14 am, J C Lawrence wrote: a) Add more RAM. Number of queue runners for your MTA Here's a silly question: Is it worth

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-11 Thread J C Lawrence
On 11 Jul 2002 17:14:36 +0100 Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 16:59, J C Lawrence wrote: [I have reordered the quotes here - sorry if I have broken the meaning] Hehn. A favoured habit of mine. But full data journalling on an MTA type system can gain you

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-11 Thread J C Lawrence
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:32:35 -0400 Scott Courtney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 11 July 2002 11:59 am, J C Lawrence wrote: On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:43:06 -0400 And from your comments, it appears that my first suspicion of my own idea was correct: it's not practical. Thanks for the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-11 Thread alex wetmore
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Scott Courtney wrote: On Thursday 11 July 2002 01:42 pm, J C Lawrence wrote: You might to look over the RFCs for SMTP and pay particular attention to the bits about guarantees and transaction handling. [...] It tends to define a whole lot of sync() and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-10 Thread alex wetmore
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Tim Crouch wrote: I am looking for suggestions on a hardware purchase. I am setting up a new mailing list server for our University. It will host up to 500 lists ranging from 2 subscribers to 3000 with an average of under 200. We will archive no more than 1 year's worth

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

2002-07-10 Thread J C Lawrence
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:12:27 -0600 Tim Crouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for suggestions on a hardware purchase. I am setting up a new mailing list server for our University. It will host up to 500 lists ranging from 2 subscribers to 3000 with an average of under 200. We will