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[Christian Dahlhausen <address@concealed>]

Hi,
we have about 15000 mailing lists and are close to golive with Sympa. I got two questions regarding this feature.

Can I turn this feature on without interrupting the service, or just restarting the Sympa process?

Will there be a text flat file (or old flat file backups) of the config files to see what changes happened to the list configuration?

Thanks,
Christian

2009/10/21 David Verdin <address@concealed>

Hi,

When displaying the list of list, sympa must evaluate the visibility scenario for each list, to know if the person asking to view the list is allowed to do so.
The implies to read each lists' config and evaluate their scenario. reading the config file is the toughest job. If you have a lot of lists, you shoul use the config.bin files; they are cache binary version of config files. Reading them don't need parsing or analysis on the Sympa part. It greatly improves the performances.

Please read the documentation part regarding config.bin files: https://www.sympa.org/manual/conf-parameters/part3#cache_list_config
And the FAQ addressing performance issues in Sympa : https://www.sympa.org/faq/performances

Regards,

David

Umut Arus a écrit :

Hi,

I have used sympa 5.4.2 and created about 400 lists. There is a slowness when clicking on topics (categories). It waits while listing the email lists on page. The server is idle and no performance problem. However, there is no slowness on the sympa home page.

What may be the source of problem?

thanks in advance,

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David Verdin
Comité réseau des universités

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