[Mailman-Users] Large Messages and Delivery Delays

[Marc MERLIN]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 02:56:57PM -0800, Burris, Keith wrote:
> This morning a subscriber on one of our internal lists passed a message
> that was roughly 4MB (PowerPoint presentation attached). Eventually the

You go find  the user with a big  LART and explain to him that  next time he
puts  the attachment  on a  web page  or a  file server  and references  the
location in his Email :-)

You should  also restrict your message  size acceptable on the  list back to
100KB (that's a mailman option)

> message was delivered, but Mailman was blocked up for about 40 minutes.
> There is an entry in the digest log at about the time the MTA handed the
> message of to Mailman. The post log shows a corresponding entry about 40
> minutes later. The smtp log shows the message being handed back to the
> MTA about 10 seconds later.
 
I've had users do a lot worse to my mailman install, and it's been doing
(mostly) ok. I think the bottleneck was probably among those:
- memory (your machine probably started swapping)
- MTA
- disk I/O
 
Marc
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