[Mailman-Developers] Speaking of pathological behavior...

[Dan Mick]

Dan Mick wrote:

> Specifically, it looks a lot like both of these steps happen for every
> member:
> 
> 1) the archive links are made and unmade
> 2) the entire config.db.tmp file is rewritten, start to finish

Sorry, let me reword that one last time:

1) the archive links are remade, even though they exist (probably not a big deal)
2) config.db.tmp is written, and then .db becomes .last and .tmp becomes .db.

Probably batching up all the "changes" into one config.db write is a big
big win.