Re: [HACKERS] Re: List response time...

2001-08-25 Thread Justin Clift
Hey guys, Can you move this thread elsewhere? It's EXTREMELY off topic now. :( Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >ooohh I've been raggin on > > >Marc on that one for w

Re: [HACKERS] Re: List response time...

2001-08-24 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, David Ford wrote: > It's all in the configuration. I slam mails around dozens of machines > in seconds using sendmail and I process a lot of mail. So have you patched for the latest of the many sendmail root exploits? Vince. --

Re: [HACKERS] Re: List response time...

2001-08-24 Thread speedboy
> It's in the configuration. I run much more than the above and have no > issues at all. Yeah, some people shouldn't have root even if they own the machine. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgres

Re: [HACKERS] Re: List response time...

2001-08-23 Thread Hannu Krosing
David Ford wrote: > > Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > >>Mailing lists don't scale well to large numbers of subscribers. I see this > >>delay constantly,on multiple lists. The bigger the list gets, the slower the > >>list gets (and the more loaded the server gets, right Marc? :-)). > >> > > > >Note

Re: [HACKERS] Re: List response time...

2001-08-23 Thread David Ford
Vince Vielhaber wrote: >ooohh I've been raggin on >Marc on that one for well over a year, maybe two.. I started using >qmail when it was still in .7something beta and never looked back. The >folks at Security Focus have moved all of the lists to ezml

Re: [HACKERS] Re: List response time...

2001-08-23 Thread David Ford
Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >Both qmail and postfix radically outperform sendmail for large mailing >list delivery on identical hardware. It seems strange to me to say >that there is no sendmail issue when sendmail itself is the issue. >The queuing structure sendmail uses is simply wrong when a sing

Re: [HACKERS] Re: List response time...

2001-08-23 Thread David Ford
> > >You are seeing sendmail's poorly designed queuing behaviour in action. >sendmail limits itself by outgoing messages, rather than outgoing >deliveries. This causes one slow delivery to hold up many fast >deliveries. > Again, all in the configurationrinse, repeat. Simply change your queu

Re: [HACKERS] Re: List response time...

2001-08-23 Thread David Ford
Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >>Mailing lists don't scale well to large numbers of subscribers. I see this >>delay constantly,on multiple lists. The bigger the list gets, the slower the >>list gets (and the more loaded the server gets, right Marc? :-)). >> > >Note that the postgresql.org mail serve

Re: [HACKERS] Re: List response time...

2001-08-21 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Mailing lists don't scale well to large numbers of subscribers. I see this > > delay constantly,on multiple lists. The bigger the list gets, the slower the > > list gets (and the more loaded the serve

Re: [HACKERS] Re: List response time...

2001-08-21 Thread Mitch Vincent
I've had great luck with Postfix as well. -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Ian Lance Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lamar Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Serguei Mokhov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PostgreSQL Hackers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 4:24 PM Subject: [HAC

Re: [HACKERS] Re: List response time...

2001-08-21 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On 21 Aug 2001, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Mailing lists don't scale well to large numbers of subscribers. I see this > > delay constantly,on multiple lists. The bigger the list gets, the slower the > > list gets (and the more loaded the server gets,