[Mailman-Users] Mailman performance / sends per hour

Brad Knowles brad.knowles at skynet.be
Fri Jul 25 18:52:52 CEST 2003


At 12:19 PM -0400 2003/07/25, Vivek Khera wrote:

>  I think it depends on your MTA and whether you have personalization on
>  in Mailman (which will increase the number of messages being pumped
>  through).  Also, sending mail tends to be disk-bound if you are not
>  network-bound.

	In my experience, sending e-mail tends to be disk-bound pretty 
much no matter what.  It all has to do with synchronous meta-data 
updates.

	As I have said before:

	For MTA performance tuning issues (especially sendmail), see my 
paper <http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/papers/sendmail-tuning/>, 
Nick's paper <http://www.jetcafe.org/npc/doc/performance_tuning.pdf>, 
and and Nick's book <http://www.jetcafe.org/npc/book/sendmail/>.

	For issues with regards to tuning the performance of mailing 
lists in specific as opposed to MTAs in general, see 
<http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa97/21.kolstad.html> 
and 
<http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/lisa98/chalup.html>.

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