Re: Avoiding competing process (was Re: indexes)

From: Byron C. Darrah <bdarr_at_sse.FU.HAC.COM_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:01:45 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <199810072001.NAA02679_at_pepperoni.pizza.hac.com>

> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:32:03 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Randall S. Winchester" <rsw_at_Glue.umd.edu>
> Sender: owner-hypermail_at_landfield.com
>
> On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Kent Landfield wrote:
>
> : The latest version I'm cleaning up now has locking in it to avoid
> : the timing problems associated with very busy lists. This is an FYI
> : since Byron's use of make is very appropriate for very high traffic
> : lists. I have found that for those types of lists, running hypermail
> : hourly is much more "system friendly" and most list users don't care
> : as long as it gets there in a reasonable fashion.
>
> Great, Thank you!
>
> Randall

Definitely cool. However, one thing users should beware of is that file locking doesn't work all that great over NFS. Even sendmail and pine users are cautioned about using an NFS directory for the mail spool because locking is not guranteed to work. I have found that having hypermail archives processed by a seperate computer (along with other jobs that do various web site updates) using NFS for access to hypermail files is very useful because it puts less load on the web server.

This is likewise just FYI.

--Byron Received on Wed 07 Oct 1998 10:04:39 PM GMT

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