Oops, forgot to anwer the second part. On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Andrew Hedges wrote:
> Context: I'm BRAND new to configuring mail servers, so go easy! ;^) I'm > running Mailman 2.1.6 on a Mac G4 running OS X 10.4.2 using the default > Postfix and Python installations (versions 2.1.5 and 2.3.5, respectively). > PS: As an aside, is it typical for it to take nearly 3 seconds for Mailman > to process one, puny message to a list with one, puny recipient? What's the > gate on performance? Disk speed? CPU? Network connection? It depends, as always. I think the delay may be related to the DNS error. Whatever time you do see will break down to a "large" per message overhead with a "small" per recipient time - in other words, just because to send to one recipient takes X seconds does not mean 100 reipients will take 100X seconds. > Our lists > won't be large (the largest is around 200 members), but we will have about > 40 of them. Will this overload my little Mac? How much traffic? You should be fine. I'm running mailman on a "half-dome" iMac - two major lists - one has about 50 members and gets 100 or so small (under 5k) messages per day and the other has about 150 members and 1 100k message per day. DSL at 384kbps upstream. I don't notice the effect of either list on computer performance. I would notice the second on DSL bandwidth if I were up at 2am when that message gets sent - it ties up the connection for about five minutes (I VERP all messages so to send to those 150 members means 150 seperate messages going up the DSL line). -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
