[Mailman-Developers] locking and big lists

[Brad Knowles]

At 3:12 PM +0200 2004-10-28, Fil wrote:

>  As I have a very big server (4 CPUs, 6Gbytes of RAM), I suppose that only a
>  MySQL-backed Mailman would answer this problem. How far is it from being
>  usable?

	For a large-scale mail system, number and speed of CPUs is 
meaningless.  Amount of RAM doesn't really mean a whole lot.  What 
you need is disk I/O capacity.

	Have you put your entire spool filesystem on solid-state disk, or 
at least very high capacity multi-spindle RAID 1+0 arrays with high 
speed battery-backed controllers with large quantities of write-back 
cache?


	See also 
<http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq06.003.htp>, 
as one of many items in the Mailman FAQ that discuss "performance". 
Of course, you should also see the others, too.

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