[Mailman-Developers] 200 000 subscribers

[Robby Griffin]

On Tuesday, Mar 16, 2004, at 10:34 US/Eastern, Heiko Rommel wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Ron Ohmer wrote:
>
>> I believe a large percentage of that time will be spent by your 
>> browser.
>>
>> You have a table, then ~3950 formatted lines (<LI> tag).
>>
>
> Especially if using older versions of Netscape Navigator the rendering 
> of large
> tables takes ages.  However, other browsers may be cheating by 
> displaying the
> search results even before it is complete (MSIE for example). To test 
> if it is
> really MM who is the bottleneck try the command line tools 
> (list_members etc).

Loading the page with lynx, it takes about 16 seconds before I'm 
prompted to accept a cookie, meaning the CGI has spent that amount of 
time producing no output. Afterwards, the page transfers in 4-5 seconds 
at 140kb/s. Rendering is ridiculously fast in lynx, of course.

	--Robby