Re: [Mailman-Users] thousands of lists

2005-07-29 Thread Forrest Aldrich
Along this line of discussion, the issue of DB backend integration is on the list of TODO - I wonder if there has been any discussion or exchange about implementation. This may help solve some of the scalability issues. _F Brad Knowles wrote: >At 3:07 PM +1000 2005-07-28, Iain Pople wrote:

Re: [Mailman-Users] thousands of lists

2005-07-28 Thread Brad Knowles
At 3:07 PM +1000 2005-07-28, Iain Pople wrote: > We are using Solaris UFS. If switching filesystems is an option, you might want to take a look at Veritas VxFS. It's a commercial replacement that should be more than enough for your needs. I've had experience with SGI XFS (on real SG

Re: [Mailman-Users] thousands of lists

2005-07-28 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:55 AM -0400 2005-07-28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While I can't address your question directly, I can say that this > isn't an issue. Just use ReiserFS or set your ext2/3 filesystems to > use dir_index. Either one will give you hashed directory lookups and > resolve this performance i

Re: [Mailman-Users] thousands of lists

2005-07-27 Thread Iain Pople
We are using Solaris UFS. On 28/07/2005, at 2:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 01:55:36PM +1000, Iain Pople wrote: > >> The concern is that on a unix filesystem it is very slow to access >> directories with thousands of entries. >> > > While I can't address your question

Re: [Mailman-Users] thousands of lists

2005-07-27 Thread ross
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 01:55:36PM +1000, Iain Pople wrote: > The concern is that on a unix filesystem it is very slow to access > directories with thousands of entries. While I can't address your question directly, I can say that this isn't an issue. Just use ReiserFS or set your ext2/3 filesy

[Mailman-Users] thousands of lists

2005-07-27 Thread Iain Pople
Hi, I need to setup a system with around 15,000 lists. Have other people been using mailman for such a large number of lists? One thing that concerns me is that there doesn't seem to be any support for a hashed directory structure for storing the the lists config and archives under: $VAR_PR