On 11/16/2005 17:16, Francoise Becker wrote: > Paul, > > According to CataList, you are running the 1.8e version from May > 2002. Here are the improvements that have been made since then that > might help your performance. In particular, TUNE_MANY_LISTS was not > added till December 2002 and has seen many improvements over > subsequent releases. In other words, the TUNE_MANY_LISTS you have > currently in your go.user is a no-op. Thanks for the feedback. It appears that we need to find the resources to upgrade to 14.4. > Use a test server that is disconnected from the network (so > you don't end up sending out emails), restore a backup of your > production server, upgrade it to 14.4, add the TUNE_MANY_LISTS > parameter to your site config, and see how fast it starts up. The biggest challenge will be finding a test system with enough power to handle the production load. The reason our last round of testing was done with 10% of the lists was because the test system simply did not have the resources to handle the full load. And it still doesn't. -- Paul Russell Senior Systems Administrator OIT Messaging Services Team University of Notre Dame