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