[Mailman-Developers] Looking at performance again

[Richard Barrett]

At 17:20 14/05/2003, Barry Warsaw wrote:

big snip, because I am still thinking about the bulk of your post

>- Does our "NFS-safe" locks impose too much complexity and overhead to
>   be worth it?  Does anybody actually /use/ Mailman over NFS?  Don't
>   we sorta suspect the LockFile implementation anyway?  Would we be
>   better off using kernel file locks, or thread locks if we go to a MT
>   model?

Mailman runs entirely out of NFS file space on my major client's site. It 
is central to the backup and resilience (backup server) strategy for that 
site. I would want to retain NFS locking as an option.

>Okay, now I'm rambling.  What is the lowest hanging fruit that we might
>be able to attack?  I'm up for any other ideas people have.
>
>-Barry
>
>[1] wget -E -H -k -p -nH -nd -Pdownload <url>
>     followed by a little Python script to multipart/related it
>
>
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