[Mailman-Developers] Huge lists
Sean Reifschneider
jafo-mailman-developers@tummy.com
Tue, 23 May 2000 11:38:46 -0600
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 12:47:12PM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
>recipients. My goal would be for stock Mailman using a fairly simple
>installation on relatively common hardware to easily handle 1M
>recipients.
I guess you'd better define "relatively common hardware". What are we
talking about here? Some benchmarking I did of real-world recpieints
has shown that a dual PII 450 with a GB of RAM and the mail spool set
up on a 500MB RAM disc, and upstream connectivity of dual DS3s,
was able to handle around 100k deliveries an hour. This was using
qmail with a remote concurrency of 250 and a bunch of little tricks.
So, unless I missed something pretty serious in the configuration
of this environment, "relatively common hardware" should include
at least a dozen boxes.
Again, this was a real-world list of around 400k addresses of users
who had signed up to receive a particular announcement. They have
since moved to a cluster of around 10 machines running some custom
software and are getting over 1M per hour with that setup.
>email lists of varying sizes. I'd like to create lists of 1k, 10k,
>100k, 250k, 500k, and 1M recipients. Do you think between us we can
>gather 1M fake recipients for a test list?
I could probably donate 5% to 10% of that amount across a few upstream
lines.
Sean
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