[Mailman-Users] slow web administration

[Jon Carnes]

On Sunday 02 June 2002 06:03 pm, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 08:15:37PM -0600, Tremaine Lea wrote:
> > Hey there folks,
> >
> > Not sure if anyone else has run across this issue, but it's slowly
> > driving me batty.  I currently have mailman 2.0.9-1 running on a Xeon
> > 800 with 500 megs of ram.  It has a single mailing list with roughly
> > 450,000 subscribers.
> >
> > I've found that accessing the web interface for administration is
> > incredibly slow.  Is there any way to speed that up, or to handle
>
> There are lots of linear scans, and yes it will be slow.
>
> The only way to speed that up is to revisit the code.
> Porting users to a DB however shouldn't be too hard, Barry did use a base
> object that has methods you can override.
>
> Marc

Actually this came up once before, and we had the user build a RAM drive 
and load his config directory in there then mount that in place of the real 
config directory.  It worked like a charm.

All the database accesses, rebuilds, etc took place in RAM rather than on 
disk.  You can imagine that this was much faster.

BTW: just to be safe, he backs up the RAM drive hourly (I think...)

Jon Carnes