From: dbe AT wgn DOT net ("$Bill Luebkert") Subject: Re: Very slow propagation of mailing list? 13 Jun 1997 09:38:53 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <33A0B731.44A4.cygnus.gnu-win32@wgn.net> References: Reply-To: dbe AT wgn DOT net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) Original-To: cgf AT bbc DOT com Original-CC: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Chris Faylor wrote: > > I've noticed that it sometimes takes more than 24 hours for my email > to the mailing list to show up on the mailing list. Looking at the > submission times of all of the articles today it appears that I am not > alone. > > I've also noticed that I get personal responses to email about 24 hours > after I've sent something. > > So the question is: Is there a reason why the gnu-win32 list is so slow? > Is the Cygnus machine *incredibly* bogged down or is there some other > bottleneck somewhere? I don't notice this kind of delay in any of the > other mailing lists to which I subscribe. How big is this list? I also noticed a 20 hour delay in getting messages on the win32 Perl list. I computed that if it takes 1 second to send a message to each user (kinda slow, but just as an example) and there are over 1000 people on the list, then it would take 1000 seconds per email to relay it to the list. 20 hours is 72000 seconds / 1000 seconds per message = 72 messages per 20 hour period max. All of that is based on a 1 second relay time. Some will be more, large postings of binaries, etc. Most should be less. A Unix box should be faster than this, but maybe they're running M$ OS (I doubt it). Just a thought. :) PS: this message will suck up another 1000 (give or take) seconds. -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles / ) /--< o // // http://www.wgn.net/~dbe/ -/-' /___/_<_