[Mailman-Developers] Looking at performance again

[Barry Warsaw]

On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 13:39, Donn Cave wrote:
> Our disk I/O problems will come up towards the end of the month,
> with database/2003-May-article 2x the size of 2003-May.txt.  Don't
> know if this counts in raw throughput, but it sure has an impact.
> Archiving looks to me like the bulk of our system CPU and disk load.

Archiving is a whole 'nuther can of worms, which could use a serious
reworking.  But I'm not concerned with that here given that there are at
least two other abortive attempts at addressing archiver issues.

> Even less in the raw throughput department, we generate a static
> main listinfo page rather than poke through thousands of config.pcks
> every time someone wants to see the page.

That makes sense.

> In principle threading looks like a can of worms to me.  Still
> incomplete support across platforms, problems with things like
> signal delivery, increase in complexity and decrease in robustness.
> It does depend on the application, but you have to be desperate.

It's a lot to think/worry about. :)

Thanks,
-Barry