[Mailman-Users] Load testing a mailman server

[J.A. Terranson]

On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Steve Wray wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> we are considering deploying a mailman mailing list server.
> 
> I want to ensure that its fairly lean and that it also performs adequately.
> 
> So I'd like to do some load testing on it to measure its performance.
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone can provide any ideas, insights or warnings with
> respect to this sort of thing?
> 
> Thanks!

Load testing is a very simple and staright forward manner, however, I 
would question the need for it unless you are dealing with lists of 
unusual size or settings (VERP comes to mind).  More data from you would 
help.

//Alif

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