[TriLUG] Python-Mailman question

[Jon Carnes]

If it helps in your decision, you don't really need to upgrade, you can
simply install Python 2.2 on the server (in it's own directory) and then
when you re-install Mailman, use a switch on the ./configure line to
point the install to the version 2.2 of python.

Another data point: Mailman version 2.0.13 was written with backwards
compatibility to earlier versions of python, but was optimized to run on
version 2.1 (works great on 2.2 as well).

Jon Carnes

On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 16:53, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
> All,
> 
> I'm using PMP (Pyhton-Mailman-Postfix) on a Red Hat box. Postfix runs fast and 
> great. Python is there, being used by Mailman... and Mailman is slow. It's 
> objectively slow: it takes around 6 minutes to deliver a message to a mailing 
> list... and when gets a que of messages for a mailing list, it uses up as 
> much CPU as it can grab.
> 
> Is this normal?
> 
> Would I increase performance upgrading Python? I've noticed that Python is in 
> the 2.x versions now. (how difficult could it be to upgrade Python on a Red 
> Hat production server?)
> 
> Soft Specs:
> postfix-1.1.7-2
> python-1.5.2-43.73
> mailman-2.0.13
> ext3
> Red Hat Linux 7.3
> 
> Hard Specs:
> Pentium-III-550
> 1.3G RAM
> FAST-20 WIDE SCSI disks
> 
> 
> 
> Salut,
> Sinner