Re: linux-kernel's extremely slow turnaround time

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:58:05 -0300


Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org> said:

[...]

> 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.

How about compiling majordomo then? The latest perls have (experimental)
support for compiling to binary.

Just a random thought... should try it sometime around here.

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