On 3 Feb 2003, Jon Carnes wrote: JC>Some guesses (since no information was provided): JC> Mailman 2.0.x JC> IDE disk subsystem JC> Archiving turned on for list JC> JC>If that is the case, then Mailman is doing a lot of writing to the disk.
Howdie, Ah yes, a little info that may have helped. Mailman is version 2.1 I am running an IDE Mirror. The disks seem pretty quick doing around 30 Meg a second. [root] /archives # dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1024k count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 104857600 bytes transferred in 3.218110 secs (32583596 bytes/sec) and archiving is turned on on all the lists. --- Gareth Hopkins Server Operations UUNET South Africa (o) +27.21.658.8700 (f) +27.21.658.8552 (m) +27.82.929.6668 http://www.uunet.co.za 08600 UUNET (08600 88638) "The contents of this e-mail and any accompanying documentation is confidential and any use thereof, in whatever form, by anyone other than the addressee for whom it is intended, is strictly prohibited." ------------------------------------------------------ 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 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: archive@jab.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org