[Mailman-Users] Serious Performance issue

[Brad Knowles]

At 10:38 AM -0500 10/17/06, Gadi Evron wrote:

>>  I am new to this list having just implemented mailman for an
>>  announce-list we host.  In short, the performance is horrible.  The list
>>  has approx 40,000 subscribers and the avg message going out is about 40K
>>  (some embedded imagery).  I know we can do better with lazy html etc.,
>>  but the system has become unresponsive.
>
>  Generally, mailman does not really cope with *very* large lists too
>  well.

Yeah, but if you've done the performance-tuning stuff correctly (see 
the FAQ), then you should be able to handle a 40K list.  Mailman 
typically starts to see issues when you get into lists considerably 
larger than that.

And the performance enhancements that they're working on for 2.2 
should help things tremendously.

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