Re: List response time...
Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
To: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
Cc: "Serguei Mokhov" <sa_mokho@alcor.concordia.ca>, "PostgreSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-08-21T20:24:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> 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, 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. Ian