[Mailman-Users] Re: [Mailman-Developers] Re: Big problems with stale lockfiles on large list...

[Harold Paulson]

>>     GT> major fire that I've had.  Now all I've got to figure out is
>>     GT> how to try to speed up the admin CGIs so that they don't take
>>     GT> two or three minutes to load when dealing with large lists...
>
>I'm positive that moving the storage to MySQL/PgSQL/Oracle will speed
>up the db side, guess this is something for the 3.0 release.
>

I'd have to agree with this.  Grabbing any 30 records out of 65k is 
an operation that shouldn't take more than about a second on any 
modern DB.  It also seems like it would skirt around the need for 
some of these complicated locking tricks.

	- H
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