On Tuesday 29 January 2002 09:49 pm, Mike Bresnahan wrote:
> 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

I think he sees it as at least highly desirable that the same server running 
TCLUG also run some other, vastly more I/O intensive, somewhat related 
things.  


>
> > -----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(!).
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