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Re: Why is this list so slow?
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Why is this list so slow?
- From: Andi Kleen <ak at muc dot de>
- Date: 29 Jun 1998 14:34:43 +0200
- Cc: Carlo Wood <carlo at runaway dot xs4all dot nl>, egcs at cygnus dot com (egcs at cygnus dot com)
- References: <10551.899068754@hurl.cygnus.com>
Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:
> Long term we'll probably drop sendmail and use a more list efficient
> mailer, but until then (an that may be a long time) the list will
> probably continue to have a relatively long latency.
An alternative[1] (used successfuly by the high-volume linux mailing lists)
is to use external exploders based on TLDs (e.g. one for Europe, one for
.com etc.). Maybe someone would volunteer to run such a exploder.
-Andi
[1] Actually they don't use sendmail of course, but zmailer, but the splitting
over exploders helps a lot too.