The mailing list for listmasters using Sympa

[Christian Dahlhausen <address@concealed>]

Hi, 

we run a Sympa 5.3.4 on an Ubuntu 8.04 with approx 16,000 mailing lists. The web interface is very sluggish and it takes a long time to do operations (search for lists for example) on the web interface. We looked at the apache configuration but everything seems to be fine, or at least as it should be. I noticed that if I switch between mailing lists and instead of using the search function, just change the listname in the browser address bar I get the list site a lot quicker. I have looked in older messages of this list and couldn't find much to improve the slowness. 

I already followed the tips on the Sympa website for performance tweaks. We use the binary list config versions. 

We store list archives on a nfs share and list configurations (expl) on the local disk. We kept the file locking to the default, flock. Would it make a big difference to move the expl directory also on the nfs share and user nfslock? Or, just switching to NFSlock and keep the expl directory local?

Thanks,

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Christian Dahlhausen, Network Systems Engineer
University of Virginia - ITC Network Systems 
PO Box 400324, 2015 Ivy Road, Charlottesville, VA 22904