[Mailman-Users] Load-balancing mailman between two servers

[Gadi Evron]

Is this in the FAQ anywhere?

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 6:30 PM -0500 11/28/06, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> 
> >  Of course, if machine 1 went down, all the messages in its hash
> >  slices would sit unprocessed, but it would be a fairly simple matter
> >  to reconfigure machine 2 to handle machine 1's slices, or to bring up
> >  a fallback machine to handle those slices in the meantime.
> 
> Ahh, okay.  Cool.  I knew that there was a hashing scheme, but I had 
> thought the intent was to use that for allowing multiple queue 
> runners for each queue, on a single machine.  I wasn't aware that the 
> same mechanism would be used for splitting the queues across servers 
> via NFS -- allowing you to avoid the locking problems I mentioned 
> earlier.
> 
> Cool.
> 
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