[Mailman-Users] Slow Performance on semi-large lists

[Chuq Von Rospach]

At 3:53 PM -0800 12/13/00, J C Lawrence wrote:

>There are some small points, such as you should be running a local
>cacheing DNS server (I use DJBDNS, but BIND can do this as well).

This is a HUGE improvement. Even if your local machine is loaded, 
it's faster tahn a dedicated DNS machine next door, because 
relatively speaking, network is slow here.

>What to do about the posts sitting in your sendmail queue when you
>do that?


or, just sit it aside, and run a "sendmail -q5m" on the moved 
directory until everything times out and is empty.

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