Re: linux-kernel's extremely slow turnaround time

Chris Wedgwood (cw@ix.net.nz)
Tue, 12 Jan 1999 17:58:11 +1300


On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 06:27:30PM -0600, Oliver Xymoron wrote:

> I'm still using 1.x majordomo just like everyone else. The
> bottleneck is not calling external commands (which is primarily
> calling sendmail for message delivery, once per message), but in
> loading and compiling resend, archive, etc., repeatedly. Resend for
> some lists may also have to read the subscriber list to determine
> whether a post is legitimate, but this is not an issue for
> linux-kernel. Free memory helps _a lot_, as do fast disks.

You don't have to run resend... you can get by without it.

-cw

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