Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

At 12:56 PM +0300 2006-07-24, Naglaa El-Deeb wrote: > I am looking for suggestions on a hardware purchase. See FAQ 1.15 and 1.24. Start at if you don't know what I'm talking about. -- Brad Knowles, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Those who would giv

[Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

Dear Sir, I am looking for suggestions on a hardware purchase. I am setting up a new mailing list server for our University. It will host up to 500 lists ranging from 20 subscribers to 1 with an average of 200 . Number of messages broadcast by the list server ranging from two to fo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

On Friday 12 July 2002 01:34 am, alex wetmore wrote: > Here is the important section: [...] Thanks for the additional information. Scott -- ---+-- Scott Courtney | "I don't mind Microsoft making money. I mind them

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

On 12/07/2002 06:34:00 alex wetmore wrote: >Various companies, such as cenatek.com, make hardware that meet these >requirements. It isn't very affordable though, and most servers would >probably do just as well with a well thought out RAID array (that >means avoiding RAID 5, which has very po

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Scott Courtney wrote: > On Thursday 11 July 2002 01:42 pm, J C Lawrence wrote: > > You might to look over the RFCs for SMTP and pay particular attention to > > the bits about guarantees and transaction handling. > [...] > > > > It tends to define a whole lot of sync() and open

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

On Thursday 11 July 2002 01:42 pm, J C Lawrence wrote: > You might to look over the RFCs for SMTP and pay particular attention to > the bits about guarantees and transaction handling. [...] > > It tends to define a whole lot of sync() and open()/close() calls (which > latter force a buffer and in

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:32:35 -0400 Scott Courtney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 11 July 2002 11:59 am, J C Lawrence wrote: >> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:43:06 -0400 > And from your comments, it appears that my first suspicion of my own > idea was correct: it's not practical. Thanks for th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

On 11 Jul 2002 17:14:36 +0100 Nigel Metheringham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 16:59, J C Lawrence wrote: > [I have reordered the quotes here - sorry if I have broken the > meaning] Hehn. A favoured habit of mine. > But full data journalling on an MTA type system can gai

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

On Thursday 11 July 2002 11:59 am, J C Lawrence wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:43:06 -0400 > > Scott Courtney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 11 July 2002 12:14 am, J C Lawrence wrote: > >> a) Add more RAM. Number of queue runners for your MTA > > > > Here's a silly question: Is it wo

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:39:00 -0400 Scott Courtney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 11 July 2002 09:13 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > In that kind of an environment, my idea for a RAMDISK-based > /var/spool/mqueue might not be so far-fetched, on the Mailman machine > iteslf, because the

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:39:00 -0400 Scott Courtney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What method are you using to determind what relay gets each outbound > message transaction? First order optimisation is domain suffix routing (all .edu there, all .org there, all aol.com over there, etc). That can t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 16:59, J C Lawrence wrote: [I have reordered the quotes here - sorry if I have broken the meaning] > Journalling actually is a loss in this sort of scenario due to the extra > tracking and buffer copy overhead. The nice thing about ReiserFS and > XFS in particular is that th

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 08:43:06 -0400 Scott Courtney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 11 July 2002 12:14 am, J C Lawrence wrote: >> a) Add more RAM. Number of queue runners for your MTA > Here's a silly question: Is it worth considering *really* upping the > RAM, say to two gigabytes, and

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

On Thursday 11 July 2002 09:13 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Agree with all that. Am using Compaq 380, 5 x 36 Gb hard discs and > hardware Raid5, 1Gb RAM and 512Mb swap, Reiserfs. > > However on these machines mailman is sending batches of mail to separate > MTA/relays. That's a good idea, too,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

On Thursday 11 July 2002 12:14 am, J C Lawrence wrote: > Tim Crouch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Obviously disk size will be number one on the priority, but I am > > looking for what you would run this on. OS will be RH Linux 7.3 the > > hardware will be from Dell. I am leaning towards the fol

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:12:27 -0600 Tim Crouch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for suggestions on a hardware purchase. I am setting up > a new mailing list server for our University. It will host up to 500 > lists ranging from 2 subscribers to 3000 with an average of under 200. > We wi

Re: [Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Tim Crouch wrote: > I am looking for suggestions on a hardware purchase. I am setting up a > new mailing list server for our University. It will host up to 500 lists > ranging from 2 subscribers to 3000 with an average of under 200. We > will archive no more than 1 year's wo

[Mailman-Users] Hardware Requirements

I am looking for suggestions on a hardware purchase. I am setting up a new mailing list server for our University. It will host up to 500 lists ranging from 2 subscribers to 3000 with an average of under 200. We will archive no more than 1 year's worth of messages. Obviously disk size will be n