On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 12:43:27 -0600 Roberto Ullfig <rullfig@uchicago.edu> wrote:

So why would it take so long to display the list of all mailman lists that we run? We have about 450 lists and it takes just over _1 minute_ for the list of lists to display.

Ouch.

IIRC the current architecture has MailMan iterating across ~mailman/lists/*, and checking every subdirectory for a valid config.db file. Apparently that takes a minute on your server. There has been some discussion of putting a central list catalogue in MailMan, removing the need to walk the filesystem to find the lists, but I haven't seen any motion on that.

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