[Mailman-Users] Slow command-line unsubscription

[Harold Paulson]

Hi,

more than being disk or CPU bound, isn't this mostly, 
have-to-send-an-email-to-each-address bound?

	- H


At 4:43 PM -0600 7/13/01, Charlie Watts wrote:
>I'm trying to unsubscribe about 1000 addresses from a list of about
>12,000.
>
>This is on FreeBSD 4.3, a dual-proc PIII 500. Otherwise un-loaded.
>
>Command-line:
>~/bin/remove_members -f /tmp/un-newsletter newsletter
>
>It is taking  -forever- . Watching ~logs/subscribe, addresses are being
>un-subscribed at about 1 message per second.
>
>Is this normal?
>
>--
>Charlie Watts
>cewatts at frontier.net                                Frontier Internet
>Systems Janitor and Network Plumber           http://www.frontier.net/

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