[Mailman-Developers] (2.0.6) pipermail takes >1 minute to rebuild indexes on large lists

[Ben Gertzfield]

>>>>> "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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