On Sunday 02 June 2002 06:15 pm, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:33:51PM +0200, Andreu Sanchez wrote: > > Well, i have a question regarding mailman, we need to create some lists > > with 5000 mail addresses and we ask ourselves if mailman would support > > that huge bunch of mails and if the answer is yes, what machine must > > have the mailman? > > Yes, many people do that and more. > Any recent machine (P3 500Mhz or better) should do fine. I would worry > more about RAM than CPU, and put something like 512MB > > Marc
Lets not forget about the biggest bottle neck of all... the Hard Drive. For maximum through-put, you need to use a SCSI drive or RAID array as the Disk Subsystem for the server. If this is mission critical the obvious choice is a SCSI / RAID disk subsystem. Jon Carnes ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py