On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 07:33:53PM -0600, Bob Tanner wrote: > Instead of throwing more hardware at it, how about a software solution. Carl > posted why mailman's archiving sucks. How about some of you Python guru's "fix" > the performance issues? > I'm an eggdrop maintainer (http://www.eggheads.org), we use mailman for list archives and the mailing lists at eggheads.org which get quite a bit of traffic, running on a low end K6 with 128M of ram it uses no noticable resources.. I've got a P233MMX CPU and a few sticks of 128M PC133 SDRAM laying on my desk here if it's running on something akin to a 386.. > As an aside, we are not the only group feeling the pinch. Lots of talk about > performance problems, scalability of mailman on the mailman developer list. > > I'd be willing to write the middle-ware and back-end stuff, if someone would > work with me on designing the database to hold it all. Something like an open > source www.geocrawler.com. > > So, time to put up or shut-up. Open source is about technical people solving > their own problems (aka scratching their own itch). Seems like we got a big-ass > mosquito bit. Who wants to help scratch? Without information about the bottlenecks it's hard to provide any solutions, I have a 486 with 14M of ram happily running bind, an irc server, zebra, bgpd, and accepting syslog and snmp traps from multiple hosts, it has no problems. -- Matthew S. Hallacy CACU, PWGCS, and BOFH Certified http://techmonkeys.org/~poptix GPG public key 0x01938203