"Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes: "ben" == Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> writes
ben> On a massive list (Mailman 2.0.6) I run that regularly gets a
ben> few hundred or more emails every day, things begin to slow
ben> down to molasses after a week or two each month,
ben> What can I do to help solve this? I know I can use an
ben> external archiver,
Stephen> You could switch to weekly or daily archiving, I assume
Stephen> Pipermail supports that.Right, I guess there's just no archiver in the world that would support real-time archiving like this. In that case, I think it might be a better idea for pipermail to keep an eye on how long it's taking, and set a maximum for how long it spends on each message before it gives up and (possibly) tells the admin they need to switch to weekly/daily archiving.
I'll try and code up a patch to this effect; it's better than people claiming Mailman sucks and can't support large lists!
Ben
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