As I understand it, Mailman uses Perl scripts to process
the mail. This creates a substantial overhead since Perl
is usually interpreted.

I wonder what percentage of the host the PIClist is consuming.

R

Martin Klingensmith wrote:

> Ken Pergola wrote:
> 
>> PICList Administrators:
>> -----------------------
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sometimes it's good to report positive things, so I just wanted to 
>> tell you
>> that my posts had previously been taking around 45 minutes to hit (the 
>> time
>> from when I send to the time when I receive). The good news is the last
>> couple of posts have taken around 10 minutes or less. Whether this 
>> lasts or
>> not, it was good!
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Ken Pergola
> 
> 
> Mailman can be hard on mail servers. I recently setup a Mailman group on 
> my server with 2500 or so users and 60+ messages a day. I use qmail and 
> I didn't have it setup to handle the volume of outgoing mail. At one 
> point I had 12000 messages in the outgoing queue with 5 day delays on 
> rare occasion. Fixed it though, fwiw.
> 
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