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(!). > > -- > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- ------------------------------------- There's a widow in sleepy Chester Who weeps for her only son; There's a grave on the Pabeng River, A grave that the Burmans shun, And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri Who tells how the work was done. -------------------------------------