Re: List response time...

On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

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> Nope, but thanks for the offer ;)

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You won't be sorry or disappointed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
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> > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tuesday 21 August 2001 12:59, Serguei Mokhov wrote:
> > > > > Looking at my message about the bug webpage and
> > > > > some other posts, I see that it was delayed for
> > > > > about 2h and a half. Some of the post were
> > > > > delayed for days... Why is that? Looks like
> > > > > the list has problems of some sort which cause
> > > > > these irregular delays.
> > > >
> > > > 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? :-)).  Newsgroups
> > >
> > > Actually, the 'multi-day' delay is generally related to posts from ppl
> > > that aren't subscribed to the lists that I have to approve manually ...
> > >
> > > .. as far as server load is concerned, causing several hour delay, we're
> > > just about to put online a dual processor server that has been donated to
> > > the project ... its first task is going to be mailing list distribution
> > > and a open news server for the newsgroups.
> >
> > Can I put qmail on it first?
> >
> > Vince.
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