Re: Re: List response time...
Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com>
From: teg@redhat.com (Trond Eivind Glomsrød )
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: 2001-08-22T01:55:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> writes: > 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. The MTA used for various redhat.com mailing lists is postfix (and mailman as listmanager) -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.