From: cgf AT bbc DOT com (Chris Faylor) Subject: Re: Very slow propagation of mailing list? 13 Jun 1997 05:44:56 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199706130303.XAA09072.cygnus.gnu-win32@hardy.bbc.com> Original-To: dbe AT wgn DOT net Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Chris Faylor wrote: >>I've noticed that it sometimes takes more than 24 hours for my email >>to the mailing list to show up on the mailing list. Looking at the >>submission times of all of the articles today it appears that I am not >>alone. >> >>I've also noticed that I get personal responses to email about 24 hours >>after I've sent something. >> >>So the question is: Is there a reason why the gnu-win32 list is so slow? >>Is the Cygnus machine *incredibly* bogged down or is there some other >>bottleneck somewhere? I don't notice this kind of delay in any of the >>other mailing lists to which I subscribe. > >How big is this list? > >I also noticed a 20 hour delay in getting messages on the win32 Perl >list. I computed that if it takes 1 second to send a message to each >user (kinda slow, but just as an example) and there are over 1000 >people on the list, then it would take 1000 seconds per email to >relay it to the list. 20 hours is 72000 seconds / 1000 seconds per >message = 72 messages per 20 hour period max. > >All of that is based on a 1 second relay time. Some will be more, >large postings of binaries, etc. Most should be less. A Unix box >should be faster than this, but maybe they're running M$ OS >(I doubt it). > >Just a thought. :) That doesn't take concurrency into account, but your point is well taken. I do know that the perl porters list is fairly large but it does not have anything like the propagation delay of gnu-win32. It is odd, though, that my last message on this subject took only a few hours to propagate. Go figure. cgf - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".