[Mailman-Developers] Requirements for a new archiver

[Brad Knowles]

At 9:16 PM -0800 2003/10/29, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:

>  There is no such thing as a simple MTA. This gets hairy quickly.
>  Really quickly.

	Bryan is one of the few people I would expect to be able to do 
something that could actually handle the easy 80%.  Writing the book 
_sendmail_ (now in its fourth edition) is just one of his many 
talents.

>  you are much better off spending money on a good fast disk RAID (since
>  the chances that you'll win the lottery are on par with the chances
>  that your bottleneck is NOT disk I/O in mail sending) than on a
>  programmer to try to build fast MTAs.

	They were already using pure RAM disks for this application. 
Disk I/O was not the problem.

	Bryan and Eric were two major contributors to my invited talks 
"Sendmail Performance Tuning for Large Systems" (see 
<http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/papers/sendmail-tuning/>) and 
"Design and Implementation of Highly Scalable E-mail Systems" (see 
<http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/papers/dihses/>).  These guys are 
not lightweights in this field.

>  And boy, does it show.

	Indeed.

-- 
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