[Mailman-Developers] MM Bouncer

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 01:32:20PM -0800, J C Lawrence wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 10:37:36 -0500 
> Jay R Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> > I don't see that there *is* any theoretical way to *keep* loads
> > down with VERP, by it's very nature.
> 
> External IO, yes, disk IO, no.  QMail allows you to initiate a
> single spool file with a list of addresses to VERP against, and from
> there every message is delivered individually.  This cuts local disk
> IO, the ultimate constraining performance factor, drastically.

Except that, as was noted earlier, Chuq's problem *is* his wires.  :-)

Cheers,
- jra
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