Developers of Sympa

[Adam Bernstein <address@concealed>]

Hey all.  We're putting the finishing touches on a Sympa control module 
for the Drupal CMS, which we will make public and upload to the Drupal 
module repository as soon as it's ready.  It required adding a couple of 
new functions to the SOAP interface (getTopics and getTemplates, to 
allow the Drupal module to populate its list creation page with the 
valid topics and list templates for a robot), so we will be submitting a 
revised sympasoap.pm very shortly.  The module is very basic so far, but 
I think it could be the beginning of a very productive and exciting 
addition to the Sympa world.

But the main reason I'm writing is: I notice that even on a high-powered 
server with cache_list_config set to binary_file, where wwsympa.fcgi 
loads in just a few seconds, the SOAP server still takes quite a long 
time to load -- nearly 1 minute for us.  Is there a known reason for 
that?  Is it not using the cached binary list configs, and is it 
supposed to be?  We have ~3500 lists.

Thanks for any insight.

    adam