[Mailman-Developers] MM Bouncer

[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:42:44 -0500 
Jay R Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:

> 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

>> 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.
> :-)

Umm, those are his wires within his network, not the wires to the
great untapped 'network at large.  Yeesh.  MTAs are fundamentally
disk IO bound.  No two ways about it.  Not much you can do about it
either, not without violating the commit semantics of the protocol.

<shrug> Chuq speaks better for himself than I do.

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