Re: Re: List response time...

David Ford <david@blue-labs.org>

From: David Ford <david@blue-labs.org>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
Cc: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>, Serguei Mokhov <sa_mokho@alcor.concordia.ca>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-08-24T06:07:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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 server is still running sendmail.
>In my personal experience with sources.redhat.com, qmail is a much
>better choice to handle large mailing lists.  When we switched from
>sendmail to qmail, mailing list delays dropped from hours, or
>sometimes even days, to seconds.
>

It's all in the configuration.  I slam mails around dozens of machines 
in seconds using sendmail and I process a lot of mail.

David