Re: tlug: Mailing List Response Time

[Rex Walters <rex@example.com>]

On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 04:54:31PM +0900, Jim Tittsler wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 05:01:58PM +0900, Jim Schweizer wrote:
> > On 07-Oct-98 Rex Walters wrote:
> > > P.S.  The list is reasonably fast (or at least not outrageously slow)
> > >       again.  Hooray!  Who fixed what (and thanks!)?
> > 
> > Jim T. installed bind 4.9.7 as a caching name server yesterday. This is
> > probably why things have sped up a bit.
> 
> Something that I suspect made a bigger difference is that Alberto installed
> "bulk_mailer" which chops up the distribution list into address related
> pieces for sendmail to work on in parallel... rather than it crunching
> through the list sequentially.

Kudos to you both.  Turn around times are now under 3 minutes rather than
the 30 to 90 minutes we were seeing previously.

Thanks!
-- 
Rex
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