[Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

[Chuq Von Rospach]

On 5/12/01 10:51 PM, "J C Lawrence" <claw at kanga.nu> wrote:

> I find this curious.  I have MAX_RCPT_TO set to 5, and to broadcast
> 30 messages to a subscriber base of 1,000 (ie 6,000 spool entries)
> through qrunner to the MTA (postfix) on a dual PII-333 takes just
> over 6 seconds once started.  Admittedly that's an appreciable time,
> but its also not that long a time in the lands of lock contention
> and lock timeouts.

It all comes down to how fast your MTA accepts messages. If you're running
postfix with DNS deferred, you rock. If you're running sendmail with DNS on,
it's a lot slower. So it's something you have to judge based on your own
system.