On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:05:40AM +0000, P.A.Osborne wrote:
> Good Morning.
It's monday, stop kidding!
> Bearing in mind that we currently have around 1000 lists,
> and burst 2100 messages to lists yesterday, I need to work
> out a spec for the hardware.
>
> I need to spec Sun hardware as thats what we tend to use, at
> the moment an Ultra5 256MB RAM with an extra 36GB SCSI disk
> to hold archives, digests and users settings looks reasonable
> to me.
What's your local disk for the spool? Remember that Exim is IO limitted,
and the faster your local spool is, the faster the mail will be
delivered, and thus the less time it will spend on your system.
> So if any of you who run Mailman with Exim could comment on whether
> this sort of spec is likely to be agreeable/suitable/waste of space
> etc they would be greatfully received.
Donno about scalability, but it should work fine. Mailman is used on a
lot of sites (
www.redhat.com and
www.python.org) which should have a
fairly traffic.
> Finally before anyone says RTFM - I have. :-)
*grin*
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