Bob, can you give us some explanation where the 7 million hits per month are coming from? Certainly the TCLUG members are not searching the archives that much? If so, could we turn off searching and see how that effects list performance? By the way, how many people are subscribed to the list? I'm guessing less than 5000? It just seems odd to me that the list requires state of the art hardware. People have been running mailing lists the size of TCLUG's for many years on much slower hardware, no? I'm confused. Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Bob Tanner > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 5:21 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Question: Is this list moderated > > > Quoting Joel Rosenberg (joelr at ellegon.com): > > A 486, with maybe 16 meg of memory and a slow hard drive, ought > to be more > > than ample, assuming (a fair assumption), that it's going to > run some sort of > > standard mailing list software, like, say, mailman under Linux. We're > > talking about a mailing list, after all, that, on a busy day, > has fewer than > > several dozen emails. > > Hmmm, no. > > The box does over 7Million hits a month on the web archives and > with pipermail > you cannot seperate the list server from the archives. > > It push over 16gb of data a month via web. > > It processes 25,000 pieces of mail a day. > > A 486 would not be able to handle this. > > Remember if you want tclug-list, tclug-announce, tclug-jobs, > tclug-devel, you > get linux-kernel for free(!). > -- > Minneapolis St. Paul Twin Cities MN | Phone : (952)943-8700 > http://www.mn-linux.org Minnesota Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 > Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9 > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. > Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list