Re: [Mailman-Users] List performance queries

2003-07-03 Thread Brad Knowles
At 11:20 PM -0400 2003/07/02, J C Lawrence wrote: Configurable. I'd set SMTP_MAX_RCPTS to be fairly high, tho not more than 100 (see Chuq von Rospach's notes on the performance impacts and implications of this setting for more typical MX distributions). Back in 2000, there was a fairly long t

Re: [Mailman-Users] List performance queries

2003-07-02 Thread J C Lawrence
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 16:20:32 -0500 Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How large are the mailman batches? i.e. How many physical mail > messages go out? Configurable. I'd set SMTP_MAX_RCPTS to be fairly high, tho not more than 100 (see Chuq von Rospach's notes on the performance impacts and i

[Mailman-Users] List performance queries

2003-07-02 Thread Ed Wilts
I'm currently running Mailman 2.0.13 with sendmail on a PII/450 Linux system. My Mailman usage has been light and small lists. Now, my internal clients wants to send a mailing to 50,000 users (yes, they're opt-in!). What gotchas do I really need to be aware of? Initially, this first large batch