Developers of Sympa

[Andras Bendzsak <address@concealed>]

Hi All,

Many times has been discussed that the list if lists page load very
slow in large mailing list servers at the first time.

I found a small improvement in the locking system. The Locking system
write the process pid to the lock file when the lock type is write.
This doubles the necessary io operations. I had replaced the pid number
($$) with an empty string and the loading time has improved
significantly. 

Is this pid number used by any part of sympa? If not I
recommend to remove this feature.

This is the relevant part of the Lock.pm:

        ## Keep track of the locking PID
        if ($mode eq 'write') {
            print $fh "$$\n";
        }
    }else {
        &do_log('err', 'Failed locking %s: %s', $lock_file, $!);
        return undef;
    }

-- 
Andras Bendzsak