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