Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: Help XML-DEV get back in the groove and..

Author:Eric Soroos
Posted:4/22/2000; 6:36:33 PM
Topic:Help XML-DEV get back in the groove and..
Msg #:16564 (In response to 16558)
Prev/Next:16563 / 16566

One thing that can affect a mailing list server is the number of concurrent outbound connections. With enough connections, almost any low end machine should be able to saturate any connection < t1.

I know that changing the # of outbound connections on an EIMS server from 5 to 50 drastically changed performance on an 10k member announcement list that I deal with. There were something like a day's worth of backlog on this machine until the change. (I'm not sure if 5 is the default. The 50 number came from increasing the # of threads till the connection saturated, then we called it good. )

There is probably a setting in sendmail for the # of outbound connections. (given that there's a setting in sendmail for anything.) At a 0.1 load average and sendmail, I'd bet that you don't have many concurrent processes.

eric




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