[Mailman-Users] large lists question

[Jon Carnes]

On Sunday 02 June 2002 06:15 pm, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:33:51PM +0200, Andreu Sanchez wrote:
> > Well, i have a question regarding mailman, we need to create some lists
> > with 5000 mail addresses and we ask ourselves if mailman would support
> > that huge bunch of mails and if the answer is yes, what machine must
> > have the mailman?
>
> Yes, many people do that and more.
> Any recent machine (P3 500Mhz or better) should do fine. I would worry
> more about RAM than CPU, and put something like 512MB
>
> Marc

Lets not forget about the biggest bottle neck of all... the Hard Drive.  
For maximum through-put, you need to use a SCSI drive or RAID array as the 
Disk Subsystem for the server.  If this is mission critical the obvious 
choice is a SCSI / RAID disk subsystem.

Jon Carnes