This is a little late...

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010, John Esak wrote:
>I wanted to mention this about several months ago I think... The TTFL has
>gotten so much faster hasn't it?  I see my contributions to the mailing list
>in my mail within seconds these days. Something happened external to me that
>did this. Maybe Bill upgraded equipment or methodology, don't know.  Just
>wanted to know if any of you have experienced the same thing.  What used to
>take minutes and minutes over the past years, now takes seconds.  Good!

I haven't made any changes recently.  The Mailman lists here run
in a free VMware Server virtual machine, CentOS 5.x on a 2U
Supermicro box with dual Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz
processors, 8GB RAM, and pretty vanilla WD SATA drives.  There
are actually two CentOS VMs on this box, primarily handling
e-mail duties for several sets of domains that were running on
separate machines before consolidating into VMs.  The VMs are
only allocated 1GB RAM as they're just doing e-mail forwarding
and Mailman processing which is the only thing using spamassassin, 
a huge CPU sink.

The only time there will be any significant delay in message
processing is when somebody sends from an e-mail address that
isn't on the subscriber list, is too large, or identified as spam
by spamassassin, all of which put it on hold for moderator
approval which may take some time depending on when Mark or I see
it, and get around to approving it.

FWIW, I got a snail-mail from Puget Sound Energy last week
telling me that our electric usage is 75% greater than our
neighbors, which I attribute to having three racks of servers.
Any donations gratefully accepted.  The houses on either side of
ours are about 4,500 sq ft while ours is a modest 3,100 or so.

>BTW, okay for those of you who don't keep up with the acronyms that just
>mysteriously appear in our correspondence these days... And your expected to
>just *know* what they mean... :-)   TTFL  means Time To FilePro List.  :-)

There are too many TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms) in the world.

Bill
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