[Mailman-Users] thousands of lists

[Forrest Aldrich]

Along this line of discussion, the issue of DB backend integration is on 
the list of TODO - I wonder if there has been any discussion or exchange 
about implementation.

This may help solve some of the scalability issues.


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Brad Knowles wrote:

>At 3:07 PM +1000 2005-07-28, Iain Pople wrote:
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>> We are using Solaris UFS.
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>	If switching filesystems is an option, you might want to take a 
>look at Veritas VxFS.  It's a commercial replacement that should be 
>more than enough for your needs.  I've had experience with SGI XFS 
>(on real SGI hardware), and other journaling filesystems, as well as 
>other extent-based directory-hashing filesystems, and VxFS beats 
>everything else I've seen -- hands-down.
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>	If VxFS isn't an option, keep an eye on ZFS for Solaris 10.  I've 
>heard some really good things about it.
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>	Otherwise, you may be forced to have multiple Mailman 
>installations, each covering a subset of your 15,000 lists.  Or, you 
>may need to come up with a hack to implement a hashed directory 
>scheme.
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>	There is an old patch at 
><http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=403064&group_id=103&atid=300103> 
>which sounds related according to the description, but the comment 
>from Barry indicates that something similar has already been applied 
>to the code, which is why this patch was closed.
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